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[ARCHIVED] Officer Tim Wilmes to Retire After 31 Years at Loveland Police Department
"It's hard to walk away. Few people can say they did their dream job in the town they love," said Officer Timothy Wilmes.
Wilmes will retire February 5 from the Loveland Police Department (LPD), where he has served the community for nearly 31 years. He is the longest serving LPD employee.
Known for his love of his family, Christmas and his 2011 LPD-issued Crown Victoria, many in the community — even those he may have arrested — regard Wilmes as an all-around nice guy. He is the constant "good cop" whether you are in a time of need or just bumping into him around town. When many see his Crown Vic driving down the road, they can't help but smile.
"I have made so many contacts as a police officer, and the people are great," he said. "This is a great town, and I've been blessed to work in the town I grew up."
Born and raised in Loveland, Ohio, Wilmes attended Loveland City Schools and then enrolled in Scarlet Oaks Career Campus' law enforcement program. He then moved on to Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati, where he earned his bachelor's degree.
"I knew since age 5 I wanted to be a police officer. I was the kid pulling over bikes in our subdivision," he joked. "By nature, I am a quiet person, but when I put on this uniform, I am ready to perform my role and give everyone my best."
Prior to joining the LPD force in 1990, he worked at a dispatch center in Hamilton County and for Xavier University's campus police.
A Multi-Tasker
Wilmes describes himself as a multi-tasker and problem solver. These skills have served him in the management of LPD's fleet operations. Appointed to this task by former Police Chief Dennis Rees, he has managed LPD's fleet for 25 years. A position that once managed six vehicles has grown to oversee 17 vehicles.
In this role, Wilmes has been responsible for upfitting department vehicles with needed equipment like lights and sirens, as well as handling vehicle maintenance. He has developed relationships with multiple vendors and even attended yearly police fleet tradeshows held across the country.
Keeping other officers' best interest in mind, he started the procedure of assigning vehicles to officers. This has aided LPD in keeping maintenance costs to a minimum and helped to avoid "hotseating," the practice of a car being constantly driven through multiple shifts.
"I have a system. I want each officer to be comfortable and familiar with their own vehicle. A police officer's car should fit like a glove, and officers should be comfortable knowing a car's capabilities. If a vehicle does need maintenance, I will set that officer up with a similar truck or car to drive," he said.
Wilmes' partner Lieutenant Amy Campbell vouches for his commitment to improving operations: "Tim's passion is to keep things moving smoothly. For instance, with a traffic situation, he is always trying to figure out how to open traffic while keeping workers safe. His big thing is always protecting the safety of the people around him."
A Relationship Builder
As evidenced from the fleet management relationships he has built with vendors, Wilmes strongly believes in building relationships with everyone he meets. One partnership he has helped to build is between the LPD and St. Columban School in Loveland. He was the school's self-proclaimed School Resource Officer (SRO) before one was officially appointed.
While on and off duty, he would often visit his three children on their lunch break and then spend time visiting with other students in the lunchroom. With the support of the school's principal, he helped to establish safety drills, active shooter training, and emergency response protocol with the staff.
"The kids were already used to seeing a police officer at school because of me, so it was a natural transition when Officer [Jake] Steinkoenig was assigned to the school," he explained. "I'm very passionate about students' safety and I am pleased there is now an official SRO."
So what's next for Wilmes? He admits he isn't sure what retirement looks like quite yet.
"A good friend told me you have to have a purpose in retirement. I'm looking for a purpose," he explained. "But I do want to be bored for a little while! Maybe travel in the future."
He is a devoted husband and busy father of three high school-aged children. In fact, he has passed his legacy of service to his children, who are interested in serving one day through the military, fire service, and police service. "It's a blast being a dad. I wish I hadn't waited so long. It's been adventurous," he reflected.
Since announcing his retirement in December, Wilmes says he has been touched by the outpouring of messages from community members.
"I think God sends people to you for a reason. A lot of our job is non-police work — wearing a social worker hat, cop hat, firefighter hat. People need help, and they call you. On every run, I know I've done everything I can to help keep the person alive. I try to protect people from themselves," he said. "I can honestly say I've done everything I can for the people I've served. You see good and you see bad, but being a police officer is great."
Wilmes' final day of service is February 5. He will be honored at the Loveland City Council meeting on February 9 (7 p.m. at City Hall). LPD is currently planning a retirement celebration with details to be released. To learn more about the City of Loveland's Police Department, please visit https://www.lovelandoh.gov/189/Police.


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The Buzz: The CW superhero crossover is Avengers on TV
The CW superhero crossover: Invasion! Massive superhero team-ups were first seen on a movie screen in 2012's Marvel's Avengers, which was revolutionary for the genre at the time. The film paved the way for many more superhero team-ups in films, most notably in subsequent Avengers film (successfully) and this year's Batman Vs. Superman (not as successfully). This time around, we've gotten what may be our biggest super powered team up yet – but it's on a television screen. The CW aired a massive four-part crossover of its superhero shows – Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. The event was huge in scope, and it delivered on every level (thankfully so, after DC's last mash-up attempt). Check out our breakdown of each of the four parts below:
Supergirl: Frankly, I find Supergirl to be the least appealing show of the lineup. The show started on CBS and was projected to be a hit, but didn't maintain its audience. It premiered to a sizable 12.96 million viewers and gradually dipped down to 6.11 million by its season finale. I find its overly serious tone to be at disagreement with its wacky, comic book content – a balance The Flash has embraced and mastered. Supergirl herself (played by Melissa Benoist) wields the power of Superman, the most powerful hero prominent today, but she's hard to take seriously when she's saddled with a script that calls for her to ask a romantic interest if he "like likes" her.
The episode is the least involved with the crossover events, and only becomes connected in the last minute. It follows Supergirl as she attempts to prevent the spreading of a virus that could kill all alien life, which makes up a sizable portion of her universe. The production value of the show is solid, and perhaps the best of all CW's superhero lineup. Supergirl inhabits a world that allows her bigger action – she frequently fights with aliens and explores settings on other worlds. The show is at its best when we see Supergirl, her allies and her enemies in action.
The episode, and the show in general, suffer most in its quieter moments. None of the actors can sell the corny lines they are given, removing a level of believability the other shows have. "You might be an alien, but I'm Cyborg Superman!" an enemy cries in the middle of battle, and it's as nerdy as it sounds. To the show's credit, there is a heartwarming subplot involving a touching moment between a secondary character and her mother. But, Supergirl overall contributed the weakest hour to the crossover, and remains the weakest show in the lineup.
The Flash: The main plot of the crossover truly begins with The Flash, and this is where we realize how cool of a television event this truly is. This episode has elements reminiscent of The Avengers, or perhaps more accurately the all-out superhero brawl that was Captain America: Civil War. At Star Labs, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and his team are made aware of a spaceship crashing to Earth nearby. When Barry checks it out, he sees aliens running toward civilization. With no more questions asked, it's time to assemble the team – well, they don't have a team name, like the Avengers. So, just everyone who's around.
Heroes from Team Arrow, the time-jumping Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl herself (through a universe-crossing portal) gather at Barry's request. The interactions between the variety of heroes are fun, especially everyone's response to Supergirl (who is used much more effectively here than in her own show). The training scenes highlight the DC TV universe's impressive accomplishments. We have street-level heroes like those in Team Arrow, who excel at hand-to-hand combat, next to the super-powered metahumans and time travelers from Flash and Legends. It's an interesting mix, with Supergirl's overpowered abilities serving as an equalizer to the varied strengths.
I believe The Flash is the best show overall in the lineup, and it delivered what it does best. The storytelling is quick and action-packed, but it doesn't slow down on its more emotional moments either. Cisco (Carlos Valdes) has always been one of the universe's best characters, and both his newly found powers and recent character development have time to shine across the whole crossover. The episode culminates in a massive battle between the heroes after some get brainwashed. We get to see the super-powered mutants battle each other in the sky while the normal fighters brawl on the street. The scene is one of the most ambitious television action scenes of the year, and provides relentless entertainment. The crossover finds its stride this episode – and runs away with it faster than the Flash himself.
Arrow: Arrow was the first show to bring me into the DC Television Universe, but I'll be the first to admit its later seasons have declined in quality. That's why what excited me the most about this entire crossover was seeing that the show pulled out an episode that could easily hold its own in the show's first two seasons, its best. This episode wasn't only the best of the crossover, I think it's one of the best Arrow has ever produced.
Between time travelers and mutants, Arrow is the only show of the bunch that does not regularly dabble in the supernatural. The show started with and excels in gritty realism; its battle scenes demonstrate immense physicality through hand-to-hand combat (and, of course, some well-aimed arrows). That's why Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and his team, who we've already seen grow through so much, taking on aliens was so dang impressive. The show adapted to the crossover's supernatural themes with ease, and used them to further develop the emotional weight each character bears.
The episode is mostly a dream in which Oliver imagines an alternate reality where he never became the Arrow. It brings back Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), a beloved character who was killed off last season, in a dream sequence where Oliver and Laurel are able to get married. The characters slowly realize something is wrong with the universe, though, and must fight their greatest enemies of the past to escape – while saying goodbye to Laurel yet again.
It culminates by throwing the characters into a completely alien setting (literally) and having them figure out a way to get back home. I've been desensitized to seeing the supernatural characters from the other shows pull off a feat like that, but launching Arrow's realistic cast into the situation drastically raised the stakes. It's reassuring that, well into its fifth season, Arrow continues to find ways to up its game while teaching us something new about its characters.
Legends of Tomorrow: Legends of Tomorrow is an anomaly. The show has an intriguing concept – a team of heroes travels through time to ensure no one messes with the time continuum (which apparently happens more often than we'd think). With such an interesting concept, it's interesting that Oliver, Barry and Supergirl dominate the screen time on an episode that isn't even from one of their respective shows. The problem with Legends is that, even though its cast is large and they all have interesting abilities, they don't focus on a single character like the other shows do, and therefore lack a character as sharply defined as Oliver or Barry.
The episode is certainly a climax to the crossover, though. After three episodes, we finally arrive at the big alien vs. hero brawl we've been waiting for. The action scenes look lifted straight from Civil War, complete with expansive shots showcasing aerial battles and fighting on the ground. It's a spectacle, and there's a sense of wonder to the achievement. This isn't entertainment just for the sake of attracting an audience. These are top quality action scenes made to give fans what they want. They're excellent.
Still, while every other episode felt strongly attached to the show it was from, this episode could have fit anywhere in the Universe. It feels more like an episode for all four shows in general than just Legends. The episode closes with an interaction between Oliver and Barry that is satisfying for fans of their shows, but may leave Legends fans out cold. Considering the overall scope of the crossover, though, the CW delivered to the highest of fan expectations. I can't wait for next year's.
TelevisionLogan Krum December 9, 2016 The CW, Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, DC Legends of Tomorrow
Cinema: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges shine in Manchester by the Sea
FilmLogan Krum December 12, 2016 Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea, Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell
The Buzz: Hulu takes a Chance
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Eugene Weekly : News : 12.9.10
News Briefs: Will City Tax Save Schools? | Imam Says 'You Are All Muslims' | Islam Class Nixed by LCC | Invasion of the Volt Suckers | Buy Stuff for Big Trees | Best of Eugene Show on CTV | Activist Alert | War Dead | Lighten Up | Corrections/Clarifications |
Happening People: Elena Villa
Something Euge!
Will City Tax Save Schools?
A local movement for a city income tax on upper incomes to help local schools has run into opposition from The Register-Guard editorial board and conservatives who argue that it is unlikely to pass.
But a very similar income tax passed in Eugene this year by a 3-1 margin. In January, the state Measure 66 income tax increase on those earning more than $250,000 passed with 73 percent support in Eugene.
In addition, local voters have shown strong support for schools, repeatedly passing local tax increases by 2-1 margins. A web survey by School District 4J last month found that three-fourths of the 1,999 respondents supported a city tax for local schools.
Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy has announced a public forum on the possibility of a city tax for local schools from 7 to 9 pm Tuesday, Dec. 14, in the council chamber at City Hall.
The forum will examine the possibility of a sales tax instead of an income tax (city property taxes for schools are legally prohibited). But sales taxes hit the poor harder than the wealthy and have failed over and over in Oregon and Eugene by wide margins.
Statewide sales tax measures have failed nine times in Oregon, often by huge margins. In the last attempt, a state sales tax targeted at school funding with reductions in property taxes, exemptions for groceries and tax credits for the poor failed by a 3-1 vote statewide and by a 2-1 vote in Lane County.
In 1993 a Eugene sales tax on restaurants failed by a 20 percent margin with strong opposition from restaurant owners.
Sales taxes take a larger share of income from the poor than the wealthy as the poor tend to spend all their incomes, while wealthier people have the luxury of savings and investment, research has found.
There's also some discussion of a less progressive local income tax that would reduce rates on the wealthy by targeting the middle class. Saving upper income people money may win a few conservative supporters but could lead to defeat at the polls, especially with lower-wage people struggling in the recession. In 1999 a flat income tax proposal from Lane County to fund the jail by targeting the poor and middle class failed by a wide margin.
A city income tax on incomes above $100,000 would raise roughly $14 million for each percentage point of tax, according to EW estimates based on state tax data.
While, there's some discussion on exactly what tax to propose, there appears to be broad support for the importance of saving local schools from draconian budget cuts.
A city press release on the City Hall forum next week states: "Good public schools keep a city vibrant and healthy. Businesses need them, both as an immediate source of workers and as a means to attract employees to Eugene. Professionals considering relocation here often focus as much on the quality of the schools as on salaries and benefits being offered. Good schools raise property values and help reduce crime." — Alan Pittman
IMAM SAYS 'YOU ARE ALL MUSLIMS'
In response to recent distressing news events in Portland and Corvallis, Temple Beth Israel (TBI) hosted an interfaith teach-in Dec. 5 led by Imam Khalid Alfallatah of Eugene's Islamic Center to help clarify and define what exactly modern Islam is, and is not. He used a PowerPoint presentation, including videos suggesting scientific proof that the Quran is the divinely inspired word of God.
TBI's outreach was an attempt to counter ignorance, lessen misunderstandings and sow respect among Eugene's diverse religious and secular communities. Ever since Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested by FBI agents for attempting to bomb Portland's Christmas tree-lighting ceremony on Nov. 26, incidents of hate speech and bigotry towards Oregon's Muslim community have increased, culminating in an act of fiery retaliation on Nov. 28 against the Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis where Mohamud periodically attended services.
However, a similar presentation by Alfallatah, also titled "Intro to Islam 101," held at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection on Hilyard Street on Oct. 14, resulted in Rector Natasha Brubaker Garrison having to spend a lot of follow-up face time with gay and lesbian members of her congregation disturbed by Islam's vehement stance against homosexuality.
At TBI, that subject barely came up, but when the imam, whose Arabic/African family have resided in Medina (Saudi Arabia) for centuries, was asked if it's possible for an Islamic country to embrace a Western-style division of church and state, he compared countries living under Sharia law favorably against secular Western nations that do not adhere as strictly to their own religious doctrines.
"It's impossible to accept some of the Quran's teachings and reject others," Alfallatah said. "The Quran controls our personal and societal lives. Therefore, such separation of church and state is not encouraged."
When confronting misconceptions regarding Islamic Jihad, terrorism and the role of women, the imam pointed out Quranic passages that are often taken out of context. "Jihad simply means struggle," he said. "Yes, there is also jihad by sword, fighting for the sake of Allah — but the media seldom mentions the second part of that passage — that Muslims are limited to fighting those who are fighting us."
Some would argue that such wording still leaves the passage open to an extremist interpretation, but on another question, Alfallatah was quite clear. A member of the audience asked if religious Christians, Jews and Muslims who led good lives would all be equally accepted into heaven. "Yes," was the reply, "because the Hebrew and Christian Bibles are part of the Muslim tradition."
In that sense, he said, "You are all Muslims." — Joseph A. Lieberman
ISLAM CLASS NIXED BY LCC
Barry Sommer, host of CTV's Islam Today program, says his contract with LCC to teach a non-credit winter course called "What is Islam?" has been suddenly terminated without explanation, purportedly under pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which considers Sommer's views to be anti-Islamic. Sommer claims that since the LCC termination, he has also received a stream of vicious hate-mails from unidentified sources. Sommer says he is considering legal action against LCC.
LCC President Mary Spilde and spokesperson Joan Aschim said Monday that LCC "administrators and faculty are considering the most effective way to provide learning experiences on religious topics to students and the community at a time when sensitivity is high because of recent, close-to-home events in Portland and Corvallis," and that Sommer's class scheduled for January "reached the attention of administration after a phone call from a local television station on Thursday. … Due to the subject matter and in the context of recent events in Oregon, administrators conducted an immediate review and determined that it was in the best interest of students and the community to step back, pause for careful consideration, and engage our faculty in how to best provide a rich learning experience."
The statement from LCC also says "It was the desire to have a more intentional conversation about how to move forward that led to the decision to not proceed with the new noncredit class."
"This promises to a big fight," says Billy Rojas in a message to his email group Monday. Rojas and Sommer founded the local chapter of ACT! for America (www.actforamerica.org), which defends American values from "Islamic militants." Rojas says "CAIR, which enjoys a substantial amount of support from Mid-East organizations, is a political force to be reckoned with, and has sympathizers in the U.S. government and in Barack Hussein Obama's administration. The implications, while it still remains to be seen how far this may go, are serious."
Rojas describes CAIR as "an advocacy group that seeks to silence all critics of Islam; it is a known supporter of Muslim terrorist groups; it shows little inclination to report much of anything objectively; and is well known for ad hominum attacks, smear campaigns, and willful misrepresentation of facts."
A similar case played out at the University of Wisconsin-Madison several years ago. UW was criticized for allowing part-time lecturer Kevin Barrett, Ph.D., to teach an introductory course on Islamic history and culture, despite Barrett's "highly controversial personal views on the Sept. 11 attacks on America, in which he asserts the attacks were an 'inside job' orchestrated to justify a long-term war in the Middle East," according to the UW website.
Barrett is a Fulbright Scholar and convert to Islam, and the decision to allow him to teach the course was based on the provost's examination of Barrett's course plan, teaching record and academic credentials. Barrett also insisted he would leave his personal views out of the course. — Ted Taylor
This story first broke at blogs.eugeneweekly.com Dec. 3. Joseph Lieberman and Camilla Mortensen contributed to this later version.
INVASION OF THE VOLT SUCKERS
As electric cars hit the mass market this month, Eugene Water and Electric Board is ready to face both exciting and unnerving changes: an increase in profits and a simultaneous increase in power usage.
The electricity-fueled Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt transfer oil profits to the utility's pocket but also require enough energy to power a small house to charge.
While national electric utilities fear that the potential surge of electric vehicle sales will lead to citywide blackouts from their power consumption, EWEB remains confident that the utility is well-equipped for the future.
"At this point in time, we have few concerns," EWEB spokesperson Joe Hardwood said. "There's no question we won't be able to handle the electricity demands."
However, in a community where you can spot a Prius on nearly every block, it's hard for the utility to estimate the potential popularity of the emission-free vehicles.
"We're not expecting a huge spike, at least initially," Harwood said. "But it's impossible to say how quickly they will catch on."
Harwood said that, at the most, EWEB might have to replace a few small residential power lines with larger distribution cables.
Nonethless, excited anticipation overshadows EWEB's minimal worries.
"To be honest, we're fairly thrilled," Harwood said.
The Leaf and Volt are expected to sell a combined 30,000 vehicles over the next year, and will shortly be accompanied by other car company's all-electric designs. Even a local company, Arcimoto, is hoping to add its electric car models to the market in the beginning of next year.
According to Harwood, EWEB has not heard from any local electric vehicle owners yet.
Although EWEB feels secure about its role in the influx of electric vehicles, Harwood stressed the importance of providing reliable electricians to install the 110- or 220-volt circuits or provide electric upgrades.
"Eugene has homes built in the 1920s up to last year— it's such a wide range of infrastructures. We need to make sure each house is safely prepared," Harwood said.
Aside from home chargers, EWEB is looking towards the possibility of installing public commercial chargers once the vehicles become more mainstream. LCC already hosts a charging station, which EWEB may use as a model for future design.
"It's a really positive step that could be in our future," Harwood said. "But for now, we just have to watch how the present market grows."
EWEB has a web page of frequently asked questions about electric vehicles at http://wkly.ws/yq — Alex Zielinski
BUY STUFF FOR BIG TREES
Step right up ladies and gentleman, and bid on some nature-related prizes!
Cascadia Wildlands hosts its annual fundraising event at 7 pm Saturday, Dec. 11, at the EMU Ballroom. The eighth annual Wonderland Auction features a Mediterranean dinner catered by Cornucopia, plus Ninkasi brews and locally donated wines. There's a silent auction throughout the evening for most items, followed by a live auction for 25 featured prizes. All goods and services have been donated, including a small-ship cruise through the Alaskan Prince William Sound and a three-day guided trip through the Devil's Staircase, a dense forest and proposed wilderness that requires local expertise.
Each year, the proceeds of the event fund Cascadia Wildlands' conservation work. "The entirety of the proceeds goes to support our work to safeguard the Elliott rainforest in the central Oregon Coast Range," Campaign Director Josh Laughlin says. "It's an area where the largest trees in Oregon are clear cut year after year."
Laughlin hopes that Eugeneans will take advantage of the auction to buy presents for loved ones. "It's an opportunity to get holiday shopping done at generally good prices. There's not a better way to do that than purchasing locally produced goods and services from Cascadia Wildlands," he says.
Tickets to the auction are $20 when purchased online at http://wkly.ws/yp or $25 at the door.
Heads up: The UO men's basketball team is playing the same night, which will make public transportation, carpooling and planning ahead an even smarter idea than usual.
And if you miss this auction, take a trip down to Cottage Grove later in the week when the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is also having a holiday auction at 8 pm Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Old City Hall. — Shannon Finnell
BEST OF EUGENE SHOW ON CTV
A video of Eugene Weekly's Best of Eugene Awards Show Oct. 29 at WOW Hall will be shown at least eight times on Community Access TV, channel 29. The show includes performances by the top four finalists in EW's Next Big Thong Contest: Anna Gilbert, Adventure Galley, Endr Won, and Jameson & The Sordid Seeds.
See ctv29.org for show times; search the site for "best." Among the showings will be 3 pm Sunday, Dec. 12; 6:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 14; and noon Saturday, Dec. 18.
• In commemoration of Human Rights Day on the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Al-Nakba Awareness Project and the UO Arab Student Union will show the film Belonging at 7 pm Thursday, Dec. 9, in the UO Knight Library Browsing Room. Free. The film traces the dispossessed Palestinian family of the film's producer/director, Tariq Nasir, over two generations including historic footage. Following the film Dr. Ibrahim Soudy will speak on the potentially powerful role of international civil society in securing Palestinian human rights denied by governments.
• A holiday thank-you party for volunteers and contributors to Pat Riggs-Henson and other Democratic candidates is planned for 4 to 6:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 11, at Roundtable Pizza, 5547 Main St., Springfield. RSVP to Henson at 914-6928 or email henson2831@comcast.net
• 1,407 U.S. troops killed (1,397)
• 9,583 U.S. troops wounded in action (9,469)
• 594 U.S. contractors killed (594)
In Iraq
• 31,935 U.S. troops wounded in action (31,935)
• 185 U.S. military suicides (updates NA)
• 1,507 U.S. contractors killed (1,507)
• 108,094 to 1.2 million civilians killed* (107,939)
Through Dec. 6, 2010; sources: icasualties.org; defense.gov, U.S. Dept. of Labor
* highest estimate; source: iraqbodycount.org; based on confirmed media reports; other groups calculate Iraqi civilian deaths as high as 655,000 (Lancet survey, 2006) to 1.2 million (Opinion Research Business survey, 2008)
When the Republicans in Congress try to block everything the president tries to do, that's not politics — that's juvenile delinquency.
— Rafael Aldave, Eugene
• In last week's cover story, we somehow confused local media mogul Josh Finch of Exiled in Eugene with novelist Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to the End). Our serious bad. In addition, Jaculynn Peterson of MyEugene certainly did not ever live in California (she moved here from New Mexico), and MyEugene's application with the Oregonian is not about "micro-blogging," Peterson tells us. Instead, it's to partner with the O in a "one-year pilot program sponsored by the J-Labs Networked Journalism project."
•• We hope to see a good turnout at Mayor Kitty Piercy's public forum at 7 pm Tuesday, Dec. 14, at City Hall on local funding options for schools. District 4J and Bethel schools have already cut spending to the point where the quality of education we are providing is being compromised. The only solution left is some kind of new tax. Piercy has formed an ad-hoc committee to look at what is legally defensible and also acceptable to voters. We've been advocating for an income tax surcharge on those who can best afford it — Eugeneans with high incomes. The timing for such a tax is auspicious. As we write this, Congress is about to extend Bush-era tax breaks for everyone, including the wealthiest Americans. We think a graduated local tax measure will fly on the May ballot.
• The Ellie Dumdi and Ed Anderson case against three progressive Lane County commissioners goes before Judge Michael Gillespie this week as we go to press, and the testimony should be enlightening. We haven't seen all the "evidence," but what we've seen so far is just speculation and innuendo about Commissioners Rob Handy, Bill Fleenor and Pete Sorenson emailing or meeting in private to conspire, among other things, to pass Supplemental Budget #2 in 2009 to fund aide positions. As it turns out, Fleenor voted against that budget item. So much for that conspiracy theory. And to paraphrase Coos County Circuit Judge Michael Gillespie, the definition of a public meeting under the law is not just three people standing together in the same room.
Dumdi, in a July 15 deposition, admitted she never witnessed any secret meetings, never heard of any witnesses to secret meetings and never even asked the commissioners if they had secret meetings. Dumdi read about an unsubstantiated secret meeting in a Register-Guard story and called her friend Dale Riddle, a staff attorney for timber baron Aaron Jones and Seneca Sawmill Co. It appears Dumdi's conservative buddies, angry with the commissioners over their environmental stands, created a lawsuit to make their political enemies squirm and also damage their reputations. The R-G is going along with the plan, giving a big banner headline to the allegations Dec. 2 and downplaying the politics behind this frivolous lawsuit. Even Dumdi says she doesn't know who's paying her Salem attorney, Nathan Rietmann. Looks like big timber money still tries to run Lane County from behind closed doors.
• It's a banner season for Duck fans with UO's all-male a cappella group On the Rocks appearing on NBC's The Sing-off performing their viral YouTube cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and the football team finishing the season 12-0 and heading off to play Auburn in the Arizona championship game. Word from the UO is that academics won't take a backseat to sports this time, and classes won't be canceled in honor of the Monday, Jan. 10 game. The big news lately has been how to get tickets, and just how many hundreds of dollars those tix are going to cost. But as long as we're talking about spending money, did everyone forget that little Arizona immigration law issue? There's still a boycott going on, and while it hasn't crippled the Arizona economy, it has cost the state $141 million in lost meeting and convention business. Twenty years ago Arizona voters refused to give the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a holiday, and as a result, the NFL pulled the 1993 Super Bowl from Phoenix. Any ideas on how we can celebrate our Ducks without supporting a state that supports racial and ethnic profiling?
• Speaking of the Duck extravaganza, a little perspective, please. The day the Ducks were ranked #1 in the BCS, at least one of the departments on the UO campus announced that it was taking out land-line phones, as an economy measure. Everybody has a cell phone now, right?
• The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System is under constant attack these days, and it's an easy target since state retirees are benefiting from taxpayer-guaranteed 8 percent earnings while private-sector retiree's portfolios are suffering. But there's another side we don't hear much about. PERS paid about $2.5 billion in benefits to retired Oregonians in 2009, and most of that money got pumped into local economies and recirculated. PERS payments and related economic activity sustain an estimated 31,000 jobs, according to the August PERS Perspective newsletter. Those 31,000 jobs added about $915 million in wages to Oregon's economy. And according to PERS, the state collected $117 million in taxes on PERS benefits. More information and past newsletters can be found at www.oregon.gov/pers
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"I'm focused on education," says Elena Villa, who teaches film and literature courses as an adjunct instructor at the UO, and also teaches Middle Eastern belly dance and flamenco classes in local dance studios. "My goal is to expose people to other cultures." Villa got an early start as a belly dancer in a Big Sur community that came together around music and dance. "I first performed when I was 10 years old. That introduction set me on a path," says Villa, who continued with belly dance through high school in Carmel, added flamenco dance while in college at UC Santa Cruz, and went professional as a dance teacher and performer in the mid-1990s. "I developed my own style of Spanish-Arabic fusion, based on the history of cultural exchange in al-Andalus." She returned to UCSC for a master's in literature, then came to Eugene in 1998 to pursue a doctorate in comparative literature. "My first year at the Oregon Country Fair was 1999," says Villa, who completed her Ph.D. in 2006 and has served as performance coordinator (as well as a principal dancer) for the fair's Gypsy Caravan Stage since 2007. "It's a big job, but it's a labor of love. We bring in artists from all over the world." Learn about Villa's classes at elenavilladanza.net


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Q: What is the minimum of shirts that must be selected to ensure five shirts of the same color are selected?-Pigeonhole Principle A closet has 3 red, 7 blue and 10 black shirts. What is the minimum number of shirts you've to blindfoldedly pick to ensure
a. at least 4 of the same color?
b. at least 5 of the same color?
Soln: I tried working on it like this: 3 containers for the 3 colors. So ceil(N/3)=4 for the first one. Then N should be 10.
Similarly for the second one, ceil(N/3)=5, so N should be 13.
But I think my answer is wrong because there are only 3 red shirts, we can't pick 4 of the same color taking that into consideration.
I do not have the answers. Please explain.
Thank you :)

A: Your answer to the first question is correct.
For the second one, think of the worst case scenario, namely that you first select $3$ red shirts, $4$ blue shirts, and $4$ black shirts.  That means you can pick $11$ shirts without picking $5$ of the same color.  However, if we pick $12$ shirts, we must have either $5$ blue shirts or $5$ black ones.

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Q: Trouble with cascading in Active Record models I have these active record models in my application
class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :albums, :dependent => :delete_all, autosave: true
end

class Album < ActiveRecord::Base
   attr_accessor :album_artist
   has_many :tracks, :dependent => :delete_all, autosave: true
   has_many :covers, :dependent => :delete_all, autosave: true
   belongs_to :artist
end

class Track < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :album
end

class Cover < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :album
end

I'm trying, in my application, when i delete an Artist, his albums and, in consequence, the tracks and covers of his albums, get all deleted, in a cascade reaction.
The way it's implemented today, when i delete the Artist, only the Album is deleted too, leaving orphan records in my database.
Am i doin' anything wrong?

A: Instead of :dependent => :delete_all you need to configure:
:dependent => :destroy_all

Because delete will just delete all its associated objects directly from the database without calling their destroy method (what break cascading).
You might want to read 4.1.2.4 in http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#belongs-to-association-reference


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Home » All Editions » November 2009 » CIL begins satellite surveillance
CIL begins satellite surveillance
Coal India Ltd has initiated satellite surveillance of its open cast mines to have an idea of the environmental impact of its activities. The aim is to assess the remedial measures required for environmental protection and to utilise the reclaimed land for larger socio-economic benefits in a planned manner.
CIL intended to have a clear picture through such satellite surveillance on the areas of backfilled zone, plantation status, status of OB dumps, social forestry, active mining area, water bodies, distribution of waste land, agricultural and forest land and status of settlement.
The procedures adopted had been multi-pronged. CIL procured satellite data from NRSA, Hyderabad. These were RESOURCESAT (LISS-IV) data. It also obtained collateral data that is ancillary data related to concern OCP from the relevant coal company. Next step was Satellite Data Processing. Data processed using ERDAS image processing software. Information had been stored on GIS platform for temporal analysis. It had been used for ground truthing i.e. selective ground verification of land use classes to be validated in each project. Then the report is finalised and uploaded in websites of CIL, CMPDIL and concerned subsidiary.
The summary result of CIL as a whole has been encouraging. It had identified a total of 171 open cast projects. Out of these 49 projects producing more than 5mm3 (Coal+OB) per annum are now being monitored once a year. 122 projects producing less than 5 mm3 (Coal+OB) per annum will be monitored once in 3 years. Surveillance for 35 projects producing more than 5 mm3 per annum has been completed under Coal ministry's 100 days programme. Study reveals that in all OC projects, plantation area, green coverage and backfilled area have increased.
Following are the salient observations from the CIL study. In Ashoka OCP, CCL, land reclamation has increased from 6.25 sq km (2006) to 6.91 sq km (2008). In Gevra and Dipka OCP, SECL, plantation increased from 2.99 sq km (2003) to 7.80 sq km (2008).
In Singrauli Coalfield, NCL, area of plantation has increased from 55.49 sq km (2007) to 61.06 sq km (2008). In Wardha Valley Coalfield, WCL, area of plantation has increased from 11.48 sq km (2005) to 14.05 sq km (2008). The result of the satellite surveillance indicates that in the 35 mines monitored there had been an overall increase of plantation to 50 per cent of the area. So far Coal India has accredited 30 projects for ISO: 14001 certification.
The 35 mines monitored have shown that out of a total mined out area of 196 sq km, the active mining area had been just 51.57 sq km. While 144.78 sq km had been reclaimed. During 2009-10 the seven subsidiaries of CIL will monitor 49 projects and use the data to study the environmental safeguards required to be introduced in these mining areas.
The factor that has saved the mining regions from getting degraded had been the built in checks introduced by the coal Navratna as a matter of process. The corporation follows the following as a matter of routine. Extensive tree plantation programme is undertaken every year by the subsidiaries of Coal India. Avenue plantation, plantation on the OB dumps, plantation around mines, residential colonies, and available land is undertaken in existing as well as new projects. It had planted over 70 millions of plants since 1993-94 covering an estimated land area of 28335 hectares and will continue plantation activities depending upon availability of land. CIL has spent more than Rs 129 crore in planting over 7 crore saplings in areas spread over 28335 hectares since 1993-94 till 2008.
Land Use Class
Area (Sq. Kms)
(OB Dump, Backfilled	(50.55%)area. Social Forestry)
Backfilled Area
(Without Plantation) 45.54
Coal Company
No. of Projects
WCL	 10
SECL
NCL 10
CCL 03


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It is really easy to feel like to have plateaued in what you are doing and creative endeavors are no different for this. I don't have lots of time as I'm writing this between gigs and I have the release for the single She Lives There literally in under 24 hours but I wanted to pass this along.
Any regular time spent working on something does have a positive effect, in fact anything you focus on regularly will become refined. I've noticed this over the month with, of all things, music production.
I don't consider myself a music producer or engineer by any stretch, but I've sort of had to play that role while recording The Goldblacks CD and onwards since I still have the same gear. In doing that there's little nuances that have improved or approaches I learned in the blur that was the album recording, like how to give myself plenty of virtual tracks of a take to lessen the stress, or my trick of singing backup to a temporary instrument track for guidance.
The point is you may only improve what you're working on like 1% each day. But truth is that is actually huge because if keep doing that the difference in a year isn't 365% because you will adding that percent to the day before. Your learning method will also become refined too, like in my recording example. I wasn't trying to become an engineer, I was trying to make some songs, but the engineering advances came as a by product. Sometimes you can blow through plateaus through consistency, sometimes it comes thanks to an outside source but as long as you keep that focus and show up to the page each day like I said before, you will get there.
Some stuff isn't easy or fun, but it can lead to more fun if you hold on. I like my new philosophy for being at the gym which works in creativity too. If you've shown up and you're doing it you've succeeded. The effort takes you immediately past where you would have been, and anything you actually do is just a bonus.
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Home›Golf News›Gallacher enjoys first Masters visit
Gallacher enjoys first Masters visit
By Craig Dennett — 14 April, 2014
Stephen Gallacher The Masters Augusta National Sandy Lyle
Stephen Gallacher may have refused to play at Augusta National until he was officially invited to the Masters, but he definitely made the most of his debut, finishing in a tie for 34th place.
It was a case of what could have been for the Scot as solid opening rounds of 71 and 72 gave him a chance going into the weekend. A disappointing 81 on Saturday, that included three double-bogeys on the spin, put paid to any hopes of contending on the final day.
"I think when you've watched on TV for that long, you kind of know where you want to hit it. It's just a case of actually doing it is the key." - Stephen Gallacher
"I played good all week," he said. "Just a slight mishap on Saturday, but I felt as though I played good all week."
"I wasn't as nervous as I thought I was going to be. Just kind of enjoying it and kind of going with the flow.
"I think when you've watched on TV for that long, you kind of know where you want to hit it. It's just a case of actually doing it is the key. The wind swirls a bit when it gets a bit warm, and especially in the bottom corner. It is tricky out there. I don't know if that's just the more you play, the more you sort of wait for the wind to go past or whatnot.
"I've loved it. It's been brilliant to play. Three rounds under 72 is not bad for your first experience."
Gallacher leaned on experienced players
Gallacher had turned to fellow Scot and 1988 Masters champion Sandy Lyle for advice, and Lyle is happy to help as much as he can.
He said: "You can relay a few little things, but you can't do everything just in one practice round together.
"Just one week here, it's a lot of information to feed into that brain of his and he'll go home and maybe digest it. Or if he comes back next year, he'll be better prepared for it."
For Lyle, it was a good week as he made the cut for the second year in a row as he ended the tournament with a score of nine-over-par, enough to finish in a tie for 44th place.
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17 Jan 2019, 10 a.m.
Drought remains a concern with the northern NSW sorghum crops the latest to feel the burden of relentless dry conditions.
NSW grain prices had a softer tone last week as the Queensland sorghum harvest kicked off, and weakness in the northern grain markets trickled south.
Farmers are well versed in the challenges and difficulties of maintaining a commercial business with the vagaries of the Australian weather.
The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate statement, released last week, highlighted the reasons behind the east coasts smallest grain production year in a decade.
Large areas of south-east Australia experienced rainfall totals in the lowest 10pc on record, the Bureau said, exacerbating the severe drought conditions.
It was the driest September on record, they said and the third hottest year on record.
Improved rainfall in the last quarter of 2018 offered some respite to the east coast drought, the Bureau said.
Australia's wheat export pace nearly ground to a complete halt ahead of the new crop harvest as the impacts of the drought continue to be felt.
November wheat exports fell to about 300,000 tonnes in November, which was the smallest monthly wheat export total in more than a decade.
Last week ABARES forecast that Australia's 2018-19 wheat exports would fall to a 10-year low of 10.6 million tonnes due to the ongoing drought.
Nearly all these exports will come from Western Australia, were farmers were unaffected by the drought.
Western Australia's wheat crop is now expected to 10 million tonnes which has helped propel the state's harvest grain deliveries above 16 million tonnes.
South Australia's Eyre Peninsula is also expected to export around one million tonnes of wheat in the 2017-18 marketing season.
Australia's other production zones including South Australia's Adelaide zone, Victoria, NSW and Queensland are expected to have negligible wheat and barley exports in the coming 12 months because of the drought.
Wheat shipments are expected to climb in December as Western Australia's wheat harvest begins to flow to overseas markets.
GrainCorp issued its final harvest report for the 2018 crop in what has been a challenging season.
Harvest activity is winding down with farmers now on the last of the crops in Victoria's western Wimmera and Western Districts.
A further 81,600t of grain was delivered into GrainCorp's Victorian storage network in the week to January 14.
This brought the total harvested deliveries to 1.36 million tonnes which is less than half of the 2.95 million tonnes received in 2017.
Victoria was the mainstay of GrainCorp's grain receivals during the 2018 harvest.
GrainCorp only received 608,000 tonnes of grain deliveries in NSW, less than a third of last year, and around 110,000t of grain in Queensland.
Southern NSW wheat buying ideas were $10/t lower at $430/t delivered Riverina.
Newcastle sorghum prices were $7/t lower at $375/t.
Newcastle sorghum is still demanding a $13/t premium above the Brisbane prices which reflects the uncertainty over the crop in northern NSW.


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We recently reached a noteworthy benchmark - the 1000th customer! We are extremely proud to have achieved this milestone and thankful for our customers appreciation!
Seven years ago, Rentman started as a small cloud software solution developed by our founder Roy van den Broek. Since then, a lot has changed. With the goal to take the pain out of planning for AV rental companies, we have developed a solution that is now employed by over 1000 companies operating in the live event industry.
Not only the software, but the whole team has expanded over the years. Today, thirty employees from seven different countries work at Rentman everyday to develop, sell and provide support. Our clients are even more international, we have 10000 users from over 50 countries who are using Rentman daily and the software has been (partly) translated to 17 languages.
Thanks to all the feedback we receive, we have been able to continuously improve our product and reach this milestone. We are very proud of the appreciation we get from our customers and will continue to work hard on offering the best rental management solution. Stay tuned, more exciting functionalities are coming soon!


After a grant application is submitted there is often an over-the-phone interview with the key stakeholders. To support our clients in a successful grant interview we offer to participate in the interview and answer all questions related to the feasibility study we prepared. This includes two 1-hour phones calls consisting of a 1-hour mock interview (led by client) and a 1-hour grant interview.
After a grant has been successfully awarded the site owner will need to request proposals from local contractors. We can serve as the site owner's advisor which includes reviewing all proposals submitted by contractors and advising the site owner on the best course of action to move forward. We will identify any additional actions that should be taken to ensure a successful project at this stage.
During construction of the solar project, it is wise to ensure the work being conducted is of the highest quality and meets all the applicable codes and standards. As construction administrator for the site owner, we will inspect the installation of the solar system at key milestones.


A director must act honestly, in good faith and in the best interest of Videlli Limited (Company) as a whole.
A director must recognise that the primary responsibility is to the Company's shareholders as a whole but should, where appropriate, have regard for the interests of all stakeholders of the Company.
A director has an obligation to be independent in judgement and actions and to take all reasonable steps to be satisfied as to the soundness of all decisions taken by the board.
A director has an obligation, at all times, to comply with the spirit, as well as the letter of the law and with the principles of this Code.
A director must notify the Chairman in writing of any potential for conflict on interest and in the case of the Chairman, the Company Secretary who will advise the other directors of the notification.
The following guidelines are intended to assist directors in complying with the core principles of the Code. They are not meant to be exhaustive and may be added to over time to address issues of importance as they arise.
1.1 Each director should endeavour to ensure that the functions of the board have been specified clearly, are properly understood and are competently discharged in the interests of the Company.
1.2 A director should endeavour to ensure that the management of the Company is competent and is devoting its best endeavours in the interests of the Company.
1.3 In evaluating the interests of the Company, a director should take into account the interests of the shareholders as a whole, but where appropriate and/or required by law should take into account the interests of creditors and others.
2.1 Each director should endeavour to ensure that the Company is financially viable, properly managed and constantly improved so as to protect and enhance the interests of the shareholders.
2.2 A director should seek to ensure that all shareholders or classes of shareholders are treated fairly according to their rights as between each other.
2.3 The directors should consider whether any benefit to be received by the director or associated persons is of sufficient magnitude that the approval of shareholders should be sought, even though not required by law.
2.4 A director who is appointed to a board at the instigation of a party with a substantial interest in the Company such as a major shareholder or a creditor, should recognise the particular sensitivity of the position. Fiduciary duty requires the director to make a contribution in the interests of the Company and the shareholders as a whole and not only in the interest of the nominators.
2.5 Where obligations to other people or bodies preclude an independent position on an issue the director should disclose the position and seriously consider whether to be absent or refrain from participating in the board's consideration of the issue (see also Code of Conduct for Directors Item 12 and Guideline 6.2). Before taking the decision to be absent, a director should consider whether that absence would deprive the board of essential background or experience. The matter should be disclosed and resolved by the rest of the Board.
Whilst the obligations of a director are primarily owed to the Company, there are situations in which it is necessary to evaluate the interests of creditors. This is particularly so where the Company's financial position is uncertain or where insolvency may be pending. In cases of doubt, a director should, with some urgency, seek professional advice.
All companies and their directors must comply with the legal framework governing their operations and must be conscious of the impact of their business on society. Without limiting in any way the nature of the issues with which the director must be concerned in the running of the business, particular attention should be paid to the environment, questions of occupational health and safety, industrial relations, equal opportunities for employees, the impact of competition and consumer protection rules, and other legislative initiatives that may arise from time to time. Although the director owes a primary duty to shareholders of the Company as a whole, the responsibilities imposed on companies and the director under various acts of parliament clearly demand that the director evaluate actions in a broader social context.
5.1 A director should attend all board meetings but where attendance at meetings is not possible appropriate steps should be taken to obtain leave of absence.
5.2 A director must acquire knowledge about the business of the Company, the statutory and regulatory requirements affecting directors in the discharge of their duties to the Company, and be aware of the physical, political and social environment in which it operates.
5.3 In order to be fully effective, a director should insist upon access to all relevant information to be considered by the Board. This information should be made available in sufficient time to allow proper consideration of all relevant issues. In the extreme circumstances where information is not provided the director should make an appropriate protest about the failure on the part of the Company to provide the information and if necessary abstain from voting on the particular matter on the basis that there has not been the time necessary to consider the matter properly. Any abstention and the reasons for it, should be included in the minutes. It may also be appropriate to vote against the motion or move for deferment until proper information is available.
5.4 A director should endeavour to ensure that systems are established with the Company to provide the Board, on a regular and timely basis, with necessary data to enable them to make a reasoned judgment and so discharge their duties of care and diligence. An internal audit of systems supporting the board should be conducted regularly.
5.5 A director should endeavour to ensure that relations between the Board, the Audit and Risk Committee and the auditors are open, unimpeded and constructive. Similarly, the auditors should have direct and unimpeded access to the director. A director should be satisfied that the scope of the audit is adequate and that it is carried out thoroughly and with the full cooperation of management.
5.6 A director shall endeavour to ensure the Company complies with the law and strives for the highest standards of business and ethical conduct.
5.7 A director shall endeavour to ensure that the Company complies with the listing and business rules of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and in particular those rules relating to any benefits that may be received by a director or an associated person from the Company by way of an issue of shares or any other transaction of a similar nature.
5.8 A director from time to time may need expert advice (whether it be legal, financial or some other professional advice and whether it relates to fiduciary or other duties) in order to discharge duties properly. The director should ensure, to the extent possible, that any advice obtained is independent of the Company. In that regard wherever necessary the services of advisers external to those advising the Company may need to be sought.
6.1 A director must not take improper advantage of the position as director to gain, directly or indirectly, a personal advantage or an advantage for any associated person or, which might cause detriment to the Company.
6.2 The personal interests of a director, and those of family and friends, must not be allowed to prevail over those of the Company's shareholders generally. A director should seek to avoid conflicts of interest wherever possible. Full disclosure of the conflict, or potential conflict, must be made to the Board. In considering the issues, account should be taken of the significance of the potential conflict for the Company and the possible consequences if it is not handled properly. Where a conflict does arise, a director must consider whether to refrain from participating in the debate and/or voting on the matter, whether to be absent from discussion of the matter, whether to arrange that the relevant board papers are not sent, or, in an extreme case, whether to resign from the Board. Where a director chooses to be absent from the meeting, consideration should be given as to whether expertise that would be contributed by the director is otherwise available. In the case of a continuing material conflict of interest a director should give careful consideration to resigning from the Board and consider the provisions of Guideline 7.3.
6.3 An executive director must always be alert to the potential for conflict of interest between management interests and the fiduciary duties as a director.
6.4 Dealing in listed securities of the Company may give rise to dangers of breaching the duties of a director and should be undertaken with care. A director should not engage in the short term trading of the Company's listed securities. Trading of the Company's securities must be in compliance with the Policy Governing Buying and Selling of Videlli Securities.
7.1 A director must not make improper use of information acquired by virtue of the position as a director. This prohibition applies irrespective of whether the director would gain directly or indirectly a personal advantage or an advantage for any associated person or might cause detriment to the Company.
7.2 Matters such as trade secrets, processes, methods, advertising or promotional programs, sales and statistics affecting financial results are particularly sensitive and must not be disclosed.
(b) the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the Company.
7.4 A director who has been nominated to the Board by outside parties should recognise the particular sensitivity of the position and should be especially careful not to disclose confidential matters to the nominators unless the prior agreement of the Board has been obtained.
7.5 A director must not buy or sell listed securities in the Company while in possession of information which, if disclosed publicly, would be likely to materially affect the price of the Company's listed securities.
7.6 A director should ensure that any information which is not publicly available and which would have a material effect on the price or value of the Company's securities is not provided to anyone who may be influenced to subscribe, buy or sell shares. Such information includes, but is not limited to: profit forecasts; proposed share issues; borrowings; impending takeovers; impending litigation; significant changes in operations; new products; liquidity problems.
7.7 Because the Company is listed on the ASX, a director has a particular duty in this regard and should ensure that adequate and timely disclosure is made to the ASX.
8.1 An executive director should recognise that the position occupied is particularly sensitive. A director must be prepared, if necessary, to express disagreement with colleagues including the managing director. However, in the absence of a need to express disagreement, a director should be prepared to implement the decisions of the Board and the instructions of the managing director as a loyal member of the Board.
8.2 If there is any doubt about whether a proposed course of action is inconsistent with a director's fiduciary duties then the course of action should not be supported. Independent advice should be sought as soon as possible to clarify the issue.
(f) if necessary, resign, and consider advising the appropriate regulator.
8.4 'Opinion shopping' and the search for loopholes in the law is unacceptable.


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package org.apache.tajo.algebra;

import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import org.apache.tajo.util.TUtil;

public class ValueListExpr extends Expr {
  private Expr[] values;

  public ValueListExpr(Expr[] values) {
    super(OpType.ValueList);
    this.values = values;
  }

  public Expr[] getValues() {
    return values;
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return Objects.hashCode(values);
  }

  @Override
  boolean equalsTo(Expr expr) {
    ValueListExpr valueListExpr = (ValueListExpr) expr;
    return TUtil.checkEquals(values, valueListExpr.values);
  }
}

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How do you drive D+I?
How do we position ourselves for the next 50 years to make the world a better place through the power of mobility? Embrace a People-First Culture — with a strong focus on culture and people."
Group Vice President and Chief HR Officer, Toyota North America
WE DREAM BIG.
Our evolution toward becoming a mobility company goes far beyond vehicles. We are called to serve — to open access to opportunity and meet the needs of our team members, customers, dealers, suppliers, partners and society as a whole through the power of mobility.
Our commitment to this mission is rooted in D+I and our belief in equality, respect and inclusive treatment of all people. We demonstrate our commitment through the actions of our people who are a direct reflection of the communities where we live and work.
Join us as we celebrate D+I month at Toyota through July. Our team members are raising awareness of D+I's impact, celebrating people who embody inclusive behaviors at Toyota and starting conversations with month-long educational programming and much more to spur inclusive thinking.
Team Toyota, how are you driving D+I?
Make your commitment. State the ways you will embrace and promote D+I at Toyota.
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The Cowboys defeated the Steelers on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Arlington.
Dallas Cowboys' tightend Jason Witten scores a touchdown on a pass from Tony Romo in the second quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Brandon Carr #39 of the Dallas Cowboys runs after making a pass interception in overtime against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Arlington, Texas.
Dallas Cowboys' tightend James Hanna is tackled by Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker James Harrison during the first half at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Pittsburgh Steelers fans celebrate a last second touchdown in the second half against the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Fans dress up as the Dallas Cowboys take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Dallas Cowboys' lineback Alex Albright tackles Pittsburgh Steelers' running back Chris Rainey during the first half at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Dallas Cowboys' wide receiver Miles Austin tries to break free of Pittsburgh Steelers' cornerback Josh Victorian during the first half at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
Pittsburgh Steelers' Ziggy Hood, (96), celebrates a fumble recovery during a first and goal for the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders perform before their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders perform during a break in their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
The Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue dancers perform during the Pittsburgh Steelers game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.
DeMarco Murray #29 of the Dallas Cowboys gets upended by Ziggy Hood #96 of the Pittsburgh Steelers short of the end zone at Cowboys Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Arlington, Texas.
Jason Witten #82 of the Dallas Cowboys pulls in a touchdown pass against Robert Golden #21 of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Arlington, Texas.
Ben Roethlisberger #7 of the Pittsburgh Steelers looks for an open receiver against the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Arlington, Texas.


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Dionysius Thrax & Translating Πάθος
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Bernard Taylor's paper in the 2010 SBL panel discussion on Greek voice and deponency surveyed the ancient grammarians to demonstrate that the concept of deponency has no grounding in what native Greek have to say about voice. In my view, it was convincingly argued, as I noted previously. In the question and answer time afterward, I asked Dr. Taylor if in his studies of the ancient grammarians whether or not he viewed the translation of πάθος as "passive" to be anachronistic or not. That is to say, have we been reading back into the ancient grammatical texts English syntactic categories.*
* On a side note that I will be picking up, those who argue that language typology is dangerous for the grammatical research on the basis that it might cause typology to be read back into the grammar of Greek must contend with what I would suggest is a more dangerous phenomenon: when one does not have a grounding in how languages function generally, the tendency to make Greek either more like English than it is (and thus safe and familiar) or less like English than it really is (and thus exciting and exotic). Four or five dissertations come to my mind that have done one or the other, but I will refrain from naming them out of respect for their authors who, despite that, are good scholars. Nobody is perfect, after all.
Rutgar Allan (2003) has already demonstrated that both the –μαι and –θη forms are basically semantic in nature and not syntactic. That is, they do not necessitate passive syntactic constructions. Consider for example: Josephus, Life 138 (the translation is Steven Mason's and all the Greek below links back to Perseus):
ὁ μὲν ταῦτα ἔλεγεν, ἐγὼ δὲ τῷ θεῷ τὰ κατ' ἐμαυτὸν ἐπιτρέψας εἰς τὸ πλῆθος ὡρμήθην προελθεῖν.
Although he was saying these things, I, having entrusted my affairs to God, set out to meet the mob in advance.
No passive here. The verb ὡρμήθην "set out" (or perhaps better, "rushed out") can in no way be construed as a passive. Just a –θη form with its middle meaning. But we'll spend more time talking about Rutgar Allan's work a couple posts from now. For now we can just observe that verbs denoting body motion consistently appear with the -θη form and do not have passive meaning and are not necessarily deponent (e.g. ἔρχομαι). ὁρμάω, the verb behind ὡρμήθην, also appears in Matt 8:32, Mark 5:13, Luke 8:33, Acts 7:57; 19:29.
Anyway, I think that if I had the time and opportunity to explain myself better than the 10 seconds that it took to ask the question that Dr. Taylor would be in basic agreement with me, but I would like to make clear where my question came from. What follows is an extended quotation from Masayoshi Shibatani's (2004) article, "Voice." For those of you non-linguists, who do not know who Shibatani is, see here. Stephen Carlson has provided the relevant excerpt from Dionysius in the comments.
Pardon any typos, I typed this whole quote out from the print edition sitting on my shelf. I think I've corrected them all, but I might have missed a few.
The middle (or medial) voice is considered to be the most heterogeneous voice category. But this heterogeneity can be only apparent because the variety of expressions encoded as middle are expressed by separated constructions in other languages. A typical middle form and its 'ambiguity' can be observed in the following Classical Greek middle expression from Homer (Andersen 1991:51)
(8) és hr' asamínthous
to then bathing.tub (acc.pl)
bántes
go (aor)-part.aor-nom.pl
eüxéstas loú-sa-nto
well.polished (acc.pl) wash-aor-3.pl.mid
'Then having climbed into the well polished bathing tubs they (a) washed themselves, (b) washed each other, (c) were (automatically) cleansed, (d) were washed.'
The middle inflection in Classical Greek expresses a range of concepts that are expressible, in English and some other languages, by four (and more) separate constructions; (a) the reflexive, (b) the reciprocal, (c) the spontaneous, and (d) the passive construction. Because of this, modern grammarians tends to view the middle voice as having a number of functions or senses each of which is uniquely expressed by a separate construction in some other languages. But such a view fails to capture the essence of the voice mechanisms of early Indo-European languages, from which the modern notions of voice as well as voice-related grammatical terms are inherited – some via Latin translations.
Unfortunately, there is some terminological inconsistency in the Greek grammatical tradition handed down from the classical grammarians such as Dionysius Thrax, whose Techne grammatike (ca. 100 B.C.) is considered a standard work on Classical Greek (cf. Art.6). Against the two distinct sets of inflectional endings for persona and number, which are identified as 'active' and 'middle', Dionysius distinguishes three diatheses 'state, dispositions' or voices: energeia 'activity' (from which the modern term active' evolved from Latin activum), pathos 'affection' ( > Latin passivum > 'passive'), and mesotes ( > 'medium', 'middle'). Among these, the first two voice categories are primary ones that correlate directly with the inflectional categories of 'active' and 'middle'. Dionysius exemplifies the diathesis energeia with tupto (hit. 1.sg.act) 'I hit' and pathos with tuptomai ((hit 1.sg.mid) 'I undergo hitting'. That is, as a first approximation, the major voice categories of Classical Greek of energeia and pathos can be said to be correlated with the semantic distinction of whether the subject of the verb affects others (energeia) or it itself is affected (pathos). The mesotes category, as its name implies, combines the features of the two major voice categories; i.e. the active inflection with the pathos meaning or the middle inflection with the energeia meaning. Thus, the form identified as the middle inflection does not correlate directly with Dionysius' mesotes voice. Rather the middle inflection represents the pathos voice, and this is what is normally recognized as the middle voice by modern grammarians. (One needs to exercise discretion in reading Kemp's (1987) translation of Techne, in which 'pathos' is straightforwardly translated as 'passive.) Notice that the four 'modern' interpretations of the middle form in (8) all express pathos meaning, i.e. the subject represents an affected entity or 'the locus of the principle effects of the verbally denoted action' (Klaiman 1991: 106).
I am interested in my reader's thoughts on Shibatani's view, particularly the section of mesotes. I've already shared this with a few people and all of them have expressed agreement with Shibatani's analysis of the meaning of πάθος.
He makes no reference to "deponency" in the entire article, but his words here might be interpreted as an approval a valid category. Personally I don't think he would make such a claim, particularly because he makes it clear that in his view the category mesotes has no formal realization in the language. And further, the entire issue of tantum verbs (whether activa or media) is not broached in any way.
The interpretation of the meaning of mesotes is so extremely complicated in Dionysius Thrax, that I highly doubt that there's any benefit to spending much time on trying to draw a conclusion. There's so little information in the ancient grammatical texts that I would be incredibly nervous to place too much weight on any interpretation of mesotes. With that said, the words about energeia and pathos are sufficiently clear that can minimally recognize that 1) Dionysius is using the terms to refer to the -ω forms and the -μαι forms and that they are basically semantic in nature: activity and affected. There is absolutely no reference made to the passive syntactic construction.
I also want to emphasize that the verbal inflectional form labeled as πάθος in Thrax is a middle form (-μαι). Nowhere does Thrax make any reference to the supposedly "real" passives: –θη. Fundamentally, πάθος needs to be read on its own terms rather than through the lens of 2000 years of western grammatical terminology that have developed mostly apart from it: "that which is affected;" "state or condition;" "what one has experienced." Considering that the middle is what is in debate these days and that those who reject deponency also just so happened to have attached themselves to the phrase "subject affectedness," the fact that pathos can be so readily translated as affected should grab our attention.
Subject affectedness , or in Klaiman's (1991) terms, "the locus of the principle effects of the verbally denoted action" is a better way forward for both understanding middle voice in general and understanding Dionysius Thrax's term pathos.
Shibatani, Masayoshi. 2004. "Voice."Pages 1145-64. In Morphology / Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion Und Wortbildung/an International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation. Edited by Geert E. Booij et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Klaiman, M. H. 1991. Grammatical Voice. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Stephen C. Carlson	 on December 14, 2010 at 6:31 am
It would help to have a quotation of the relevant bit of Dionysius Thrax as it is not long and close, careful attention to its wording may be useful:
διαθέσεις εἰσὶ τρεῖς, ἐνέργεια, πάθος, μεσότης· ἐνέργεια μὲν οἷον τύπτω, πάθος δὲ οἷον τύπτομαι, μεσότης δὲ ἡ ποτὲ μὲν ἐνέργειαν ποτὲ δὲ πάθος παριστᾶσα, οἷον πέπηγα διέφθορα ἐποιησάμην ἐγραψάμην.
Mike Aubrey	 on December 14, 2010 at 6:47 am
Thanks for providing that, Stephen. I'll add a note referring to your comment.
The morphologically "active" examples cited by Thrax are pretty interesting:
1. πέπηγα may appear morphologically as a perfect active indicative of πήγνυμι "I fix" (but cf. πέπηχα), yet LSJ says: "but in the best authors, πέπηγα is used as the pf. Pass., Il.3.135, etc."
2. διέφθορα likewise may appear morphologically as a perfect active indicative of διαφθείρω "I utterly destroy" (but cf. διέφθαρκα), yet LSJ notes: "pf. διέφθορα intr., to have lost one's wits, "διέφθορας" Il. 15.128."
I wonder whether it is significant that both of these examples are also perfect (and also have an alternative perfect active form).
It seems that what LSJ has in mind when they say "passive" is either "stative" or "intransitive" (or both). I don't see the Iliad citation given as having a passive meaning: παρὰ δ᾽ ἔγχεα μακρὰ πέπηγεν "and beside them their long spears are fixed."
But again in term of what Thrax says, I'm not sure if he gives enough information to draw any conclusions about what μεσότης actually refers to or even if its relevant to the modern discussion…
Stephen C. Carlson	 on December 14, 2010 at 10:10 am
I think LSJ called it passive because the English "are fixed" is passive, but I would agree that this is really stative (or intransitive).
The more I stare at Thrax's brief analysis, the less relevance I think it has to the modern discussion. I think Thrax wants a simple binary opposition between ἐνέργεια and πάθος but recognizes that there are stuff that does not fit nicely into it: the stative perfects and the (aorist) indirect reflexives, with their respective active and middle morphology. Shibatani's interpretation of Thrax is a decent attempt at explaining it, but he may be crediting Thrax with more coherence than he really had.
Mike Aubrey	 on December 14, 2010 at 10:29 am
The English "are fixed" by itself without a context is ambiguous. If the sense is "are fixed [by someone/something]" then the English would be passive, but the Iliad passage clearly is not passive.
132 They that of old were wont to wage tearful war against one
133 another on the plain, their hearts set on deadly battle, even
134 they abide now in silence, and the battle has ceased,
135 and they lean upon their shields, and beside them their long
136 spears are fixed. (Murray's Loeb translation)
The spears are fixed or still. The English is definitely stative.
Shibatani's interpretation of Thrax is a decent attempt at explaining it, but he may be crediting Thrax with more coherence than he really had.
That was Carl's thought too–I shared a draft of this post ahead of time with him–and why I tried to focus only on the question of energeia and pathos rather than on mesotes.
Well, yeah, but if you want to understand why the LSJ editors called it "passive," you'd have to consider the grammatical analysis of 50-100 years ago.
My guess would be that LSJ's labelling of it as passive has nothing to do with the actual construction and meaning and everything to do with the traditional label of the morphological form.
Stephen C. Carlson	 on December 14, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Micheal W. Palmer	 on December 15, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Mike and Stephen:
I want to thank you both for this discussion. It's refreshing! I've been too busy lately to follow or comment, but I've thoroughly enjoyed reading this discussion now that I've had a few minutes to process it.
Mike, I agree with your suspicion that Shibatani would probably not see his argument as an endorsement of the notion of deponency. Thank you for posting the long quote. His discussion of Dionysius' treatment of voice is insightful, though I agree with Stephen that "he may be crediting Thrax with more coherence than he really had."
Mike Aubrey	 on December 20, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Micheal, thanks for the feedback, with this discussion, I would side with Stephen about Thrax's coherence as well.
I had hoped I could get my next batch of comments up before Christmas, but this season is a little busy. We might just pick up after the new year.
Bernard A Taylor	 on December 22, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Mike, you are correct in your assumptions regarding your question and my (non-)answer, and your comments that flow from there. I just stumbled upon this and the previous page as I was googling something else (obviously related) as I revise the paper for publication.
Fundamentally, πάθος needs to be read on its own terms rather than through the lens of 2000 years of western grammatical terminology that have developed mostly apart from it: "that which is affected;" "state or condition;" "what one has experienced."
I agree; but I would also apply the first part to DT.
I have been studying an earlier portion of the Bachmann passage that I quoted in the paper, and the rubric is: Περὶ μέσων ἡημάτων, and the opening sentence is: Κοινὸν ῥῆμα εἴτε μέσον ἐστὶ τὸ λῆγον εἰς -μαι, καὶ ποτὲ μὲν ἐνεργειαν, ποτὲ πάθος σημαῖνον. "The ending in -μαι is a common or middle verb, sometimes indicating action, and sometimes reception." For the moment, let's ignore the Latin influence. I was struck by how inadequate the standard glosses "actitivity" and "passivity" are in this context, especially the latter. Now I stumble upon your missive, and find that you have been wrestling with the same words. The English uses of passive, even when viewed as a purely grammatical term, strikes me as quite misleading. Hence my translation above. I have been ruminating, wondering whether it really helps or not. One is not really passive, simply because one is the receiver of an action. At the same time, it is clear that the sense intended by the writer is not limited to the "middle", but covers both "active" and "passive" since the 2 examples he gives are: βιάζομαι τὸν φίλον and βιάζομαι ὑπὸ τοῦ φίλου. Unfortunately we don't know who it was or when it was written.
Having found it, I will follow the discussion with interest.
Hi Dr. Taylor,
Thanks for stopping by. I'm excited to hear that we're on the same page. I agree that DT deserves to be read on his own terms as well. I don't know if you have yet seen Stratton Ladewig's dissertation, but as far as I can tell, that is exactly what he does not do. I look forward to seeing your paper in print. There's an article by Albert Rijksbaron that you might be interested in (if you haven't seen if already):
Rijksbaron, Albert. "The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians." In Philosophie du langage et grammaire dans ľantiquité, 427–44. Cahiers de philosophie ancienne, vol. 5. Éditions Ousia: Grenoble, 1986.
I haven't yet read it, but I'm looking to request it via interlibrary loan in the new year.
I'm working on getting the next batch of comments on the panel discussion up later today.
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[…] It should go without saying that I thoroughly disagree with Dr. Fanning that Pennington's view is too extreme. I also disagree with his statements about Baerman et al. Deponency and Morphological Mismatches (Proceedings of the British Academy). The Baerman volume isn't a nuanced approach because it is dealing with a very different question: What are the implications for linguistic theory if mismatches between form and meaning exist? The question of whether Ancient Greek has such mismatches in its diathesis system is very much open to debate. I have already argued else where that Ancient Greek speakers did not believe that to be the case ("Dionysius Thrax & Translating Πάθος"). […]
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