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Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
Title: Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
Subject: Cornish nationalism, Cornish Assembly, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Constitutional status of Cornwall, List of topics related to Cornwall
Collection: Cornish Nationalism, Home Rule in the United Kingdom, Organisations Based in Cornwall, Political Pressure Groups of the United Kingdom, Politics of Cornwall
The Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament (Cornish: Seneth an Stenegow Kernow), is a pressure group which claims to be a revival of the historic Cornish Stannary Parliament last held in 1753. It was established in 1974 and has campaigned since then against the government of the United Kingdom's position on the constitutional status of Cornwall, England, UK.
Operation Chough 3
Elections 4
CSP claims 5
Other actions 6
The historic Cornish Stannary Parliament last assembled at Truro in 1752, and continued until 11 September 1753.[1] The CSP formed in 1974 claims continuity from the historic parliament on the grounds that the English legal system does not recognise desuetude (laws lapsing through lack of use), and cites the precedent of the Court of Chivalry, which sat in 1952 for the first time in over 200 years. Their contention is that the Stannary Parliament, whilst not in session, still exists. They also point to the fact that the 1508 Charter of Pardon from which the historic parliament derived its powers, was confirmed as still being on the statute books in 1977.[2]
The British government rejects the claims of the group. In March 2007,
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^ Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England, volume I, 1831
^ Reference – National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, where Dafydd Wigley deposited his papers regarding this in 1978
^ House of Commons Hansard – Written Answers – 29 March 2007:Column 1673W (accessed 27 August 2007)
^ Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer of 29 March 2007, Official Report, column 1673, on politics and government: South West region, whether any parts of Stannary Law still exist as part of the law of England and Wales. [276568] Mr. Wills: The body of Stannary customary law has not been systematically repealed. It is likely however that such customary law has been superseded by modern legislation. There were also provisions in 19th century primary legislation relating to the stannaries, but these have largely been repealed. House of Commons- Written Answers – 20 May 2009 : Column 1449W ,
^ "Cornishmen show teeth in reviving a parliament", Trevor Fishlock, The Times, 21 May 1974
^ "Why Cornishmen are nailing their colours to Magna Carta", Susanne Puddefoot, The Times 26 October 1974
^ "Ancient tin miners' parliament wins its challenge in a 1978 magistrate's court", The Times, 16 June 1978
^ "Victories for Stannary Parliament seen as a giant leap for Cornwall", The Times, 17 June 1978
^ "Cornishman may appeal over tin mining ruling", The Times, 12 July 1978
^ "Court move to stop revolt over road tax", The Times, 1 August 1978
^ "Charter of 1508 is cited; Poll tax challenge", The Times, 29 August 1989
^ "Cornish poll tax rebel barred", The Times, 23 March 1990
^ "Tin mine investors face costs; Royal Cornish Consols United Tin Mines Cost Book Company", The Times, 28 June 1990
^ "Founder of firm that offered poll-tax immunity is missing", The Times, 5 September 1990
^ "Tin mining 'conman' is jailed for six months", The Times, 13 October 1990
^ "Jail term suspended", The Times, 23 February 1991
^ "Cornish tin men's reluctant farewell". The Times, 27 February 1991
^ "No stannary rates exemption", The Times, 20 June 1994
^ Cornwall heritage warning, The Times, 26 April 1999
^ "How three Cornish men and a raid on King Arthur's castle rocked English Heritage" The Guardian 19 January 2002
^ On the Road to Justice for the Cornish
^ Operation Chough Homepage (accessed 27 August 2007)
^ http://cornishstannaryparliament.co.uk/join.html
^ http://cornishstannaryparliament.co.uk/cca.htm
^ a b Cornish Stannary Parliament
^ Suppression of Cornish identity
^ CSP and Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
^ CSP letter in reply to the "The United Kingdom's Draft Second Report to the Council of Europe under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities"
^ Brown, Malcolm (18–20 September 2006). Cornish ethnicity data from the 2001 Census. British Society for Population Studies Conference. University of Southampton. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ CSP and Cornish tickbox for 2011 Census
List of topics related to Cornwall
The CSP campaigned, along with other Cornish organisations, for the Cornish to be recognised by the UK Government under the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.[27][28]
The CSP campaigned, along with 2011 Census, although this was not successful and the forms as issued did not include a Cornish tick box. For the first time the Cornish were allocated the '06' census code for the 2001 Census but there have been claims that the actual number of people registering as Cornish would have been much higher if a Cornish option tick box had been included. 37,500 people wrote that they had Cornish ethnicity on the 2001 census form.[29] The CSP claimed that many Cornish people were unaware of the new option and the figures would have been much higher if the tick-box was available.[30]
The organisation's website claims that the group has been active in seeking repayment of alleged over taxation on tin mined in Cornwall, and to have lodged documents with the European Court of Human Rights.
The CSP claimed that Cornish people are subject to forced assimilation by an education system that fails to provide them with an adequate level of knowledge about their history and, hence, their identity. They also claimed that there are persistent attempts by state authorities to deny Cornish people their identity, for example, in the national census, pupil level annual school census, exclusion from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, and denial of adequate financial cultural/linguistic resources.[25]
The CSP campaigned against the lack of a written constitutional text to protect British 'subjects' from abuse of power by the state and have highlighted the absence of a British constitutional/statutory guarantee of the principle of equality before the law (cf Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution). They raised concerns with the British government regarding the failure by the state to include Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights in its Human Rights Act 1998, the failure by the state to ratify Protocol 12 of the ECHR, the failure by the state to incorporate the European Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination into domestic legislation by introducing what the CSP claim is the inadequate Statutory Instrument 1626. They have also raised concerns regarding the retention of an unelected head of state and associated upper chamber of parliament (House of Lords), and the retention of what the CSP claim is an archaic and undemocratic Privy Council of the United Kingdom.[25][26]
CSP claims
Elections to Revived Cornish Stannary are from among the Cornish Stannary Community. To be a member of the Cornish Stannary Community you have to declare that "I am Cornish as one of my parents is of direct indigenous Cornish descent or I am Cornish by marriage, and that therefore, I consider myself to be an "heir and successor" of the Cornish Stannary Community who secured the Charter of Pardon from King Henry VII in 1508". [23] The elected officers of the Cornish Stannary Parliament are not published. There is a further organisation attached to CSP, known as the Cornish Citizens Association which has a more inclusive membership policy not based on race.[24]
The name Operation Chough is now used for an unrelated project to reintroduce the chough to Cornwall.[22]
In 1999 the Cornish Stannary Parliament commenced a new direct action campaign they termed "Operation Chough". The organisation wrote to English Heritage ordering them to remove all signs bearing that title from sites in Cornwall by 31 July.[19] Over eleven months eighteen signs were removed from sites in Cornwall including Carn Euny, Chysauster, Pendennis Castle and Tintagel. The "Keeper of the Seal of the Stannary Parliament" wrote to English Heritage saying "The signs have been confiscated and held as evidence of English cultural aggression in Cornwall. Such racially motivated signs are deeply offensive and cause distress to many Cornish people". On 18 January 2002, at Truro Crown Court, three members of the group agreed to return the signs and pay £4,500 in compensation to English Heritage and to be bound over to keep the peace. In return, the prosecution dropped charges of conspiracy to cause criminal damage.[20] The case was unusual as a Public Interest Immunity Certificate was presented to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service after about ten minutes of the hearing. A possible reason for the introduction of the PII certificate, given by the Stannary Parliament, was that the Duchy of Cornwall refuses to reveal the circumstances under which it transferred several of its properties (including Tintagel Castle) to the care of English Heritage. This prevented some defence evidence from being heard.[21]
Operation Chough
The Cornish Stannary Parliament's next large campaign was in 1989, and related to the introduction of the unpopular community charge or poll tax. They claimed that as the law imposing the charge had not been approved by the Stannary Parliament "all tin-miners and former tin-miners, all descendants of tin-miners, all shareholders in tin-mines and anyone who supplied equipment for tin-mining" were exempt from the tax. Shares were made available for sale in the Royal Cornish Consols United Tin Mines Cost Book Company at one pound each, the claim being that shareholders would not be liable for the charge. The company was owned by Frederick Trull, who had rejoined the group as its clerk.[11] By March 1990 up to one and a quarter million applications for shares had been made. On 22 March the Department of Trade and Industry was granted an injunction in the High Court freezing the company's assets on the grounds that the company was not registered under the Companies Act 1985 and that Mr Trull was not authorised under the Financial Services Act 1986 to conduct investment business.[12] On 27 June the company was placed in receivership, with shareholders potentially facing the payment of costs.[13] On 5 September the receiver announced that Trull had vanished and that there was no trace of the estimated £1 million paid by members of the public.[14] On 12 October Trull was found guilty of contempt by breaching High Court orders to stop issuing shares and for failing to disclose the whereabouts of the money. He was sentenced in his absence to six months imprisonment. The presiding judge, Mr Justice Harman, said "The matter may be based on a genuine belief by Mr Trull in the privileges of Cornish tin miners but has all the appearance of being a con trick."[15] On 22 February 1991, Trull appeared before the High Court, and his sentence was reduced to three months and suspended for two years, on the condition that he undertook to help the Department of Trade and Industry recover the money invested by the public. Mr Trull's counsel, told the court that the money had gone to "the sharks of this world" and that Mr Trull was "fired not by dishonesty, but by obsessive belief in the Stannary laws".[16][17] Mr Trull remained clerk of the parliament and in November was again before the courts claiming the Bodmin magistrates had no jurisdiction to make orders for payment against him on behalf of Restormel Borough Council as 'a privileged tinner within the Stannaries of Cornwall.' The case was finally settled against Mr Trull in 1994.[18]
The Cornish Stannary Parliament next hit the headlines in 1978, again at St Austell Magistrate's Court. Hambley had been charged with having failed to pay motor tax and displaying the stannary seal in place of a tax disc. His defence was that he was exempt from the court's jurisdiction as he was a "privileged tinner", having staked out several acres of moorland with a view to working them for tin on land belonging to the lord-lieutenant of the county. After two and a half hours consultation the magistrates agreed they had no jurisdiction.[7] The following day a court in Bodmin adjourned a similar case sine die against Frederick Trull.[8] On 11 July, the county court (which had the powers of the old stannary courts, under the Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896), declared that the lands Hambley claimed to have staked were already bounded, and ordered him to pay the landowners' costs.[9] By the end of July over a hundred people were refusing to pay road tax in Cornwall, but a decision of the High Court gave the Home Office leave to quash the original magistrate's decision.[10]
On 12 December 1974 the Home Office replied to the petition, saying that the Home Office could accept elections by the stannary towns only as constitutive of a valid Stannary Parliament. On 15 December, Brian Hambley, using the title "Lord Protector of the Stannaries", said they had decided to postpone the seizure of property in St Austell to give the four town councils an opportunity to appoint stannators. Hambley claimed there was a constitutional crisis and this should be done "immediately to avoid political anarchy".
[6] On 24 June at a meeting at which the stannators wore kilts of
On 20 May 1974 a pressure group claiming to be a revived Cornish Stannary Parliament assembled in Lostwithiel. The group interpreted the 1508 charter as applying to all descendents of Cornish tin-miners and claimed that they had the power to veto all laws made in Westminster, not only those relating to the tin and mineral industries. The meeting was primarily called in response to a crisis in the china clay industry. Employers in the industry had been forbidden by the Pay Board from paying their 9,000 workers the higher wages agreed under a productivity deal. The Warden of the Stannaries, Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave refused an invitation to open the parliament.[5]
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A method to the madness
NCAA vice presidents reflect on their experiences overseeing championship events
March 12, 2015 12:48pm Meghan Durham
Dan Gavitt, Vice President of Men's Basketball Championships:
Dan Gavitt
The first Final Four I saw in person was in 1979, when the championship game was played between Michigan State and Indiana State in Salt Lake City, Utah, featuring Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. It's still the most memorable for me because it was my first Final Four, but also because of the historical significance that game has 30 years later.
Since then, I wanted to work for the NCAA because of the special nature of the tournament and how treasured it is by the entire country. I also believe in everything that the NCAA stands for in amateur college athletics, and I wanted to be part of that team effort.
I'm here every day for the student-athletes, the coaches and all those around them – their family members, administrators and all those who are part of men's basketball. I always try to keep them in mind when I do my job. We seek perfection, a flawless championship, so the only thing that fans and athletes remember is the positive experience of the competition.
Anucha Browne, Vice President of Women's Basketball Championships:
Anucha Browne
Women's basketball changed my life. It took me from a pretty rough area in Brooklyn to Northwestern University, and I got my degree. It taught me many lessons about discipline and worth ethic, and it catapulted me to a career in sports. I think that's where it starts. My dedication to this game isn't just about the fact that it's a great job, but it's about what it does for the student-athlete.
What keeps me up at night is figuring out how I make this better, how I can continue to improve the experience and how I can ensure that women's basketball remains on the right trajectory.
It's one of the most diverse sports that we have, and that's because of the ease of access. There isn't a huge cost; you can play it anywhere. I'm concerned with how to keep it there, and to continue to give these women a chance to improve their lives through basketball.
I will be satisfied when every gym at every round of our championship is sold out, because we want our athletes to be playing in front of huge crowds. That, for me, would be the ultimate success.
Joni Comstock, Senior Vice President of Championships:
Joni Comstock
The NCAA has 23 sports and my staff works on all of them. One of the many reasons I love my job is because I have involvement in all three divisions and all 23 sports. Our sport committees and team of staff are engaged in planning and running championship in all three seasons of the academic year.
Our team handles 75 of the 89 (soon to be 90) NCAA championships. We provide leadership and support to each of the sport committees that oversee those championships, the experience of the student-athletes in each championship and we ensure that these events are conducted in a manner determined by our membership. Each year we manage the logistics and planning from the initial development of each event to working with selections of teams and fields to then being on site to work at the national championship.
My favorite part of a championship is feeling so proud of the fact that we have worked through the year to provide all of the pieces of that championship. When the athletes arrive, we want to ensure that they have a solid stage to play out the dreams that they've had, in some cases, for their entire lives.
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Ryan Serhant, the charismatic star of Million Dollar Listings New York, might have bit off more than he could chew Monday after posting an April Fools' Day prank on Instagram in which he claimed to be retiring from the real estate industry and stepping away from his hit Bravo television series.
In a new post on Tuesday, the Serhant Team founder acknowledged that the innocent prank set off a flurry of calls from worried clients, colleagues and even his own mom, all inquiring about his "decision" to retire at the ripe old age of 34.
I've thought about how to make this announcement for a long time now. As you all know, my life has changed a lot in the last 10 years, and even more so in the last month. I've spent a lot of time thinking about my priorities and what truly makes me happy in life. I never thought this day would come, but today I am officially retiring from real estate. This will also be my last season on Million Dollar Listing NY. I've thought long and hard about this, and I can't believe I'm even writing this right now, but I think it's time. Million Dollar Listing has been nominated for 2 Emmys, Bravo gave me my own spin-off, Sell it Like Serhant is a national best seller, I started a media company (@serhantmediagroup), my Vlog on YouTube is inspiring salespeople around the world, and my team and I sold $1.6B in the last 2 years. ___ I want to thank my beautiful wife, my daughter, my team, Bravo, and everyone who has made this journey so incredible. Will share more details soon — until then.
The post was meant as a light-hearted joke on April Fools' Day similar to several others published on social media by real estate brokerages like RE/MAX, which claimed it had discovered the lost city of Atlantis or another by Vendor Alley founder Greg Robertson, who published an article claiming Compass had acquired the National Association of Realtors. In another case, a brewing company claimed to be merging with Windermere Real Estate.
But the joke was lost on even some of Serhant's own colleagues, who took the Emmy award-nominated reality star at his word. Members of his team and his mom panicked while brokers from rival agencies tried to poach his clients, according to the top broker.
In the photo, Serhant holds a poster of all the commission checks his team received over the past year and insisted he had no plans to retire any time soon.
"I won't retire until I literally can't get out of bed, and even then, I'll still find a way to continue pushing," Serhant wrote.


A poorly thought out plan or no plan at all is a plan to fail. With an optimized approach to becoming a more effective online marketer, we'll outline a plan for creating a content marketing strategy that consider audience, competitive landscape and business goals along with a supporting mix of search and social media tactics. This chapter covers the independent roles of search optimization, social media and content marketing as well as a framework for an integrated approach that can improve overall online marketing effectiveness.


Needing to know what the current weather is in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for your Vacation?
Reach the upper 80's during the day and drop into the 50's at night. A great way to cool off during the summer is to spend the afternoon tubing down a lazy mountain stream. Or if you're the adventurous type, take an exciting white-water rafting trip with one of the local Great Smoky Mountain Rafting companies.
For a couple of weeks after Labor Day it is usually still warm enough to wear shorts, but it starts getting cooler by the middle of September. Be sure to bring a jacket for the cool mountain nights. By October the temperatures start dropping and the leaves start turning…bring tens of thousands of visitors to the Smokies to see the mountains in all their vivid colors. By mid November you may see some a light snowfall in the higher elevations around Gatlinburg. Be sure to bring along your jacket and a heavy coat, but bring along some lighter clothes as well. Temperatures occasionally reach the high 70's.
If you've never been here during the winter, you may think that everything will be covered with deep snow and you'll want to hide away in your Gatlinburg cabin. That may be true for the extremely high elevations, but not in lower areas such as the valley where Gatlinburg lies. This time of the year the days can be sunny and in the 70's or they may be snowy with highs in the 20s.


NASA's INSIGHT HAS LANDED ON MARS! NASA made history on Nov. 26 with its newest Mars probe, the InSight Mars lander, will touch down on the flat plains of Elysium Planitia to study the Red Planet's core like never before. Armed with a crane, heat probe and seismometer, InSight will look deep to understand Marsquakes and other Martian secrets. See our full coverage of the mission below.
Launch Photos: NASA's InSight Mars Lander Blasts Off!
For the first time ever, a robot has deployed a science instrument onto the surface on Mars.
NASA's Mars InSight lander is gearing up to deploy its science instruments on the Red Planet. Here on Earth, InSight's twin spacecraft, ForeSight, has beat it to the punch.
What's the Weather On Mars? How NASA's Insight Lander Will Find Out.
NASA's new Mars lander isn't quite ready to probe the Red Planet's interior yet, but it's starting to get the lay of the land on the surface — and in the atmosphere.
NASA's newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.
The InSight Mars lander apparently celebrates success with a simple, sustained arm raise.
During its full first day on Mars, NASA's solar-powered InSight lander generated more electrical power in one day than any previous Mars vehicle has, mission team members said.
Time zones are always tricky — but interplanetary time differences are even harder to keep track of, and now that NASA's Mars InSight lander has successfully landed on the Red Planet, that's precisely what mission staff members have to do.
InSight touched down on Mars Monday (Nov. 26), joining Mars' other robotic inhabitants: Curiosity, Opportunity and Spirit (though only Curiosity is currently "live," sending signals back to Earth). You may be wondering if InSight will meet native forms of life during its stay on Mars; alas, that question will remain unanswered.
A group of about 40 space enthusiasts huddled under umbrellas yesterday (Nov. 26) as the lights in Times Square transmitted news of the "perilous" landing maneuver to bring NASA's InSight spacecraft down to the surface of Mars.
NASA's InSight, newly arrived on the surface of Mars, will study what cannot be seen — and includes a nod to those without sight.
Mars has a new robotic inhabitant on its surface.
NASA's InSight lander touched down on the Red Planet today (Nov. 26) just before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) and beamed home its first image from the surface mere minutes later.
It's a busy time for NASA, and as the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) celebrated the successful touchdown of its InSight Mars lander today (Nov. 26), agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine is focused on the future.
NASA's InSight Mars lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018, after a nearly 7-month journey and nail-biting 6 minute landing sequence. See amazing photos from the successful landing.
NASA's InSight Mars lander arrives at the Red Planet today, and NASA will offer live 360-degree views inside its mission control center when it happens.
Two tiny trailblazing satellites hitched a ride to Mars with NASA's InSight lander in May, becoming the first small satellites to leave Earth's friendly neighborhood — but today (Nov. 26), they are nearing the end of their mission.
After a nearly seven-month deep-space journey that covered more than 300 million miles (483 million kilometers), NASA's InSight lander is set to touch down on Mars today (Nov. 26).
A tiny cubesat cruising through interplanetary space has captured a new glimpse of Mars, just before watching NASA's InSight lander touch down the Red Planet.
Mars is the second-most studied planet — only behind our own — but we know virtually nothing about its interior. That's about to change with NASA's InSight.
When NASA's InSight mission arrives at Mars on Monday (Nov. 26), the probe faces a formidable challenge — perhaps the most harrowing so far of its seven-month journey — touching down on the planet's surface.
Viewing parties around the world will tune in this Monday (Nov. 26) to watch NASA's latest Martian probe finally attempt to land on the Red Planet.
NASA's InSight lander is set to touch down on Mars this Monday (Nov. 26). Why do we keep sending robots to the Red Planet?
NASA is just days away from plopping its robotic geoscientist, the Mars InSight lander, onto the surface of the Red Planet — but if all goes smoothly, the explorer won't have much of a view to enjoy.
All systems are go for landing on Mars on Nov. 26, NASA personnel affiliated with the InSight mission confirmed during a pair of news conferences held today (Nov. 21).
NASA's InSight lander will arrive at the Red Planet on the afternoon of Nov. 26, hopefully amid a flurry of celebratory whoops akin to those elicited by the successful touchdown of the Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. 5, 2012.
Like any dutiful creation, NASA's Mars InSight lander has promised to phone home upon safely reaching its destination on Nov. 26.
NASA has enjoyed a nice run of success landing robots on Mars lately, but that doesn't mean the agency is getting cocky ahead of next month's touchdown of the InSight lander.
NASA's newest spacecraft bound for Mars is halfway to its destination and is in good condition, the agency announced today (Aug. 20). The probe even snapped a selfie in space to mark the milestone.
NASA's new Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, talks to Bruce Banerdt, who is the lead scientist on the latest mission to Mars: InSight.
The Best Views of NASA's InSight Mars Lander Launch? From an Airplane and Mountain!
When NASA launched its Mars InSight lander from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Saturday morning (May 5), a thick blanket of fog prevented onlookers from being able to see the Atlas V rocket as it soared into orbit.
NASA's InSight Mars lander is now cruising to the Red Planet.
NASA's latest Mars explorer is on its way to the Red Planet.
Vice President Mike Pence made a visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, last Saturday (April 28) to tour the facility and check out the preparations for NASA's newest Mars mission.
NASA's next Mars-bound spacecraft is ready to launch — even if there is a better than likely chance that no one will be able to see it when it leaves the ground.
In its 60 year history, NASA has launched more than 50 spacecraft to study the solar system beyond Earth and its moon. Despite the long record, the agency's next mission will do something no other U.S. interplanetary probe has done before.
NASA's InSight lander is one step closer to the Red Planet since arriving at its launch site, where final preparations are underway for liftoff in May.
NASA's next Mars lander is in the final phases of preparation before heading to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it will become the first interplanetary mission ever to launch from that site.
Send Your Name to Mars Aboard NASA's InSight Lander!
NASA is offering another chance for you to send your name to Mars aboard the InSight lander launching to the Red Planet next year.
The grounded Mars lander was supposed to have launched by now -- will it be re-scheduled for 2018? NASA is mulling it over.
Two tiny cubesats, the first NASA plans to send to another planet, will keep watch on the agency's InSight mission as it descends to the Martian surface.


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Twin Transitions: Exploring the Nexus Between Transitional Justice and Post-Communist Transition in Croatia
Ivor Sokolić, UCL SSEES
During the 1990s, in the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, Croatian society experienced twin shocks: that of a violent conflict on its territory from 1991 to 1995 and that of a shift to the neoliberal economic model. Much like many "peripheral" states that have undergone a transition to neoliberalism, Croatia's transition was marked by widespread corruption led by an elite class of businessmen and politicians, as well as by a growth in social and economic inequality in society. The effects of the war and of corruption continue to define Croatian politics, economics and society. This article examines how the neoliberal transition impacted the concurrent process of transitional justice in the country by focusing on two aspects of it: the public's perception of access to justice and the public's memory of the conflict.
A state's human rights record and extent of corruption can often reinforce each other and be intimately linked since a corrupt government is often also unlikely to respect human rights. Human rights courts, however, do not see themselves as tasked with the tackling of corruption and other economic crimes, although there are theoretically no barriers to applying the basic concepts of transitional justice to socioeconomic crimes as well. In Croatia, however, systemic economic crimes did not target the same populations as the human rights violations. Transitional justice institutions in Croatia and in The Hague, therefore, did not deal with corruption or with the legacy left behind by the Tuđman regime.
The two examples discussed below are based on focus groups conducted in Croatia in 2014 and 2015 with history teachers, members of war veterans' groups and pensioners across a number of locations. The aim of the groups was to discuss perceptions of the transitional justice process and the results came about indirectly in discussions. Moreover, groups were conducted in the background of the arrest of Milan Bandić, the Mayor of Zagreb, on corruption charges and the controversial closing down of the INA oil refinery in Sisak.
Victims in Croatia on the whole seem to feel unrepresented by both the state and by private lawyers due to their socioeconomic or ethnic status. Participants (many of whom were direct victims of the war) frequently expressed a feeling that "justice" was only available to those victims who could pay quasi-celebrity-status lawyers, who could win large settlements or, most worryingly in terms of reconciliation, who were from the right minority ethnicity background (invariably Serb).
On the whole respondents seemed unaware of who war crimes trials, be they local or international, were meant to represent. Lack of appropriate engagement and explanation from such institutions means that victims do not have a clear understanding of the courts' mandates and how they are meant to interact with them, leading to this idea that money or ethnicity enables it. Given most victims come from the poorer parts of Croatia and the large costs involved with trials (which in most cases are concerned with the "big fish"), there was a pervasive feeling in focus groups that "justice" presented in this way is not accessible to them.
Corrupting the Memory of the War
Recent surveys in Croatia have consistently ranked the tackling of corruption, together with the economy in general, as the most important political issues in the eyes of the Croatian public. This priority was expressed throughout all of the focus groups and it has even become an intrinsic part of the official and dominant war narrative in Croatia (one of defence against a larger Serbian aggressor). It is based on the belief that equality in employment opportunities was a major aim of the Homeland War, in other words, that people fought and died for jobs. Respondents described the period of conflict as one of hope, which they contrasted with the post-war period that was marked by corruption and unemployment. In industrial areas the loss of industry (such as the shutting down of the refinery in Sisak) was particularly lamented and veterans in that region felt sold out by the Croatian state. In other words, there is a view that the hope during and immediately following the war seems to have been lost to corruption. Much blame for this is attributed to the Croatian state, which makes it much harder for its institution to gain legitimacy and do their work effectively.
Furthermore, respondents saw issues of transitional justice as a means by successive governments to divert attention from the real problem in the country, namely the economy. This indicates a far deeper image problem of transitional justice, since the public may not think issues of transitional justice are important, but rather that they are hijacked (to use Jelena Subotić's terminology) by the government in order to divert their attention. It is then not surprising when such efforts are not taken seriously or given much priority in the eyes of the public.
Given the poor image of the neoliberal economic transition in Croatia, it is possible that transitional justice efforts suffer from being seen as related to it. Victims feel that they cannot participate in the process and they feel unrepresented by the Croatian state, which is seen as cultivating a corrupt economy. Moreover, successive governments are seen as using transitional justice as a means to perpetuate this corruption. Arguably transitional justice institutions could have done more to make it clear who they were designed to deal with and how, leaving other plights for justice to different actors. Mechanisms of transitional justice could have also been used to unearth crimes of the Tuđman regime since criminalising the regime on one level may have helped the society more broadly come to terms with the regime's other crimes. At the very least, more attention could be paid to how transitional justice can deal with economic crimes, if it can at all.
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When I get lost in anxiety, nothing makes sense. Everything that happens is the worst possible thing that could happen. People could be doing things that are completely fine normally, but if I am not doing well at that specific moment, I will take in the wrong way. Some days, I stay in that situation, even when my anxiety is high. I sit and I take it. I absorb all the hurt I feel and all the comments and actions I am reading the wrong way. I take it to my core. I start to shake. Finally, the need to flee comes. I get up abruptly and remove myself from the situation. I disappear. I go for a walk. I sulk in a corner. Anything to remove myself from what was causing me to have anxiety. When this happens, I take it out on people close to me. During this state, I need someone or something to blame. Taking it out on someone close to me is easier than blaming myself while i'm in it. It will usually take me ten to twenty minutes to get out of this state. When I finally do, the whole affair seems like a dream. I no longer understand why I was so upset. I no longer understand why I acted the way I acted. It's a mess. Even though during the event, a part of me knows I'm being illogical and ruining what I am doing in that moment. After, I hate myself. I feel embarrassed and awful. It's a tough situation to try to get a hold on. Especially, in the moment. It's a process that I'm learning. Hopefully soon, it will no longer affect me daily.
From personal experience, anxiety can be debilitating to say the least. As you know, anxiety can be born from a combination of biological, psychological and environmental factors. I am an advocate for good diet and nutrition as therapeutic medicine. It is often an oversight by many people as the norm is to take a pill to treat the symptoms. Food for thought 🙂 I sincerely wish you well and hope you are taking steps to feel better.


During my Chinese new year break, I went to experience Escape Park with my nieces and nephew who was visiting from Jakarta. Experience is a mild word to use as I was merely chaperoning them haha.
Yup, the sign says it all.. A cure for the entire duration I was there definitely. You will be so engrossed in trying to stay alive, completing the task, instagram, facebook and twitter is no longer in my vocabulary. Computer include smartphones.
Muscle-man Ken kick started the day by climbing up the coconut tree. How many of you city folks (me included) had climbed a tree before in your life? and do it under 10seconds!! Freaking difficult…!
The main obstacle or challenge is Monkey Business which also will take up most of your time in the park as it's divided into 3 levels obviously stating the difficulty. As we visited the park at 11am (-__-) and at the peak (CNY), we queued for at least 1.5hours before our turn to challenge the obstacles.
As the elder 3 main job was to chaperon the kids, i went on Level 1 with 1 nieces and we called it quit after completing both the routes. Muscle man Ken and Ting had to start from level 2 following the braver kids hehehe…We're not allowed to use our camera/phones in the midst of the obstacle for safety reasons and also not to jam up the whole course, so no photos. We left all our stuff in the locker anyway.
In summary, it was really a great day out with everyone. I would recommended this park to anyone who is up for a challenge and not afraid of getting hot and sweaty. After all it's the great outdoor you are at. I will definitely return to complete level 2 and 3 of the monkey business although completing the entire level 1 and some other stuff was exhausting enough for me. The flying fox was really scary at first, but after doing it once or twice, you will get used to it. You can't escape it as you have to end the course with flying fox back to square 1.
My advise to those who will be going to the park is to wear a top with sleeves. You will be HUGGING alot of wires and logs, and that will chaff your inner forearm like me 🙁 Also, a pair of glove would be helpful too.
Malaysian gets 20% off the ticket price, yay!
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Ok, just found something so adorable. Baby Cocoons! Heard of them? I'm sure you have I'm just a little slow on these things. Anyway first saw one on a great blog I follow and love called small things. Blogger Ginny is having a giveaway there at the momment and this caught my eye.
How cute is that. So I thought I'd have a little look around at some others and I found these.
So there you go, cute huh. As our new bub will be due May I'm going to attempt to crochet one, I'll try to remember to post it.


In 2009, just 6.7% of electricity was produced by renewable sources or in a 'green' way, but this continues to increase as the Government strives towards their target of 30% by the year 2020. The increase seen over the past few years has come from various policies such as the Feed-In Tariff and the Renewables Obligation. These encourage and aid the growth in renewable energy expansion as well as reducing the amount of electricity that is used, allowing that energy which is produced by renewable sources to go much further.
But how can you start to use 'green' electricity before 2020? Well, most energy providers are offering tariffs that are labeled 'green'; these are green supply tariffs and green funds.
What are Green Supply Tariffs?
This type of electricity tariff works by your energy supplier purchasing renewable energy that matches how much energy you use in the home, this can be just some of the energy you use or all of it. On your behalf, your energy supplier will be purchasing renewable forms of energy from sources such as hydroelectric power stations and wind farms. You can request information as to which sources have been included in the purchase made on your behalf and also what proportion of the supply you have received is renewable.
In a lot of cases the green tariff will state that the energy they are supplying to you is renewable but they will only be assigning you the compulsory amount of renewable energy that they are already required to supply you with. This will reduce the amount of renewable energy that they are providing to their other customers and will not increase the amount of renewable energy that is being circulated around the UK.
However, you could check to see if your supplier is one of those who guarantee that the renewable energy you want to purchase and they are buying on your behalf is extra to the amount that has to be produced by suppliers. This enables an increase in renewable energy generation as it provides customers and energy suppliers with an incentive to do so.
Currently, there are no energy suppliers that are offering a renewable energy supply of 100%. You will need to check with each individual supplier to see what their policies are for their green supply tariff.
This type of fund allows you to carry on as normal with your energy supply but involves you paying a premium amount that will be used in the development of renewable energy sources. By being involved in these types of funds you could be helping to contribute to a greater mixture of energy sources in the near future.
These types of renewable energy generation projects may have also received some support from the government's schemes.
How Efficient are Green Tariffs?
Certified Green Energy Supply schemes do allow for some guaranteed benefits. However, once calculated, this could amount to as little as 50kg of carbon dioxide being saved per year, which is less than if you changed all your bulbs to energy-efficient ones, at just 2% of your overall electricity use.
By choosing a green tariff you will be providing the energy suppliers with an incentive to look for ways in which to generate renewable electricity and to increase energy efficiency, which would lead to schemes that will save carbon dioxide further down the line.
Just by choosing a green tariff doesn't mean that all of the electricity you are buying is from a renewable source. You cannot assume that the electricity you are purchasing is carbon neutral or has zero carbon output.
Choosing to opt for a green tariff doesn't mean you don't have to be energy efficient too, as energy efficiency currently amounts to far more saved carbon dioxide emissions than opting for one of these tariffs. It is always recommended that you look at your current electricity consumption and look to ways in which you could be reducing the amount you use.


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O, the ephemeralness of blossoms.
"When things were going her way". When things are not going your way, things are not well. You want things to go your way, as opposed to away. You want to be noticed, and be of interest.
Slimcea Girl is a song sung by Siobhan de Maré, of the UK band Mono.
Slimcea, of Slimcea Bread, is a dieting bread, i.e. advertised to women who wishes to stay slim.
Slimcea was a British brand selling reduced calorie foods between 1959 and the mid-1990s. The brand was launched in 1959 by Procea Products which became part of Cavenham Foods in 1965. It was sold to Spillers in 1975 which in turn was taken over by Dalgety plc in 1979.
The brand's flagship product was its reduced calorie bread, which was advertised with the tagline "Show them you're a Slimcea girl". The "Slimcea girls" featured in the advertisements were usually winners of national Slimmer Of The Year competitions. A reduced calorie sweetener was also produced under the brand, along with a number of less successful products such as UHT milk.
Another song of Siobhan de Maré ethereal voice is Mono ♪ Ingénue.


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Year of the Buffalo – Darling Laney EP
Posted by: Casey
Category: Acoustic, Folk
Occasionally, one song is all it takes to make an impression. When we first heard Year of the Buffalo's "Vagabond" back in June, we began eagerly awaiting the Dayton, Ohio based quartet's forthcoming EP. Now that "Darling Laney EP" is out, we're more impressed than we were even a few short months ago. The six songs on "Darling Laney", all 26 minutes of them, are an incredible introduction to the rootsy, raw folk stylings of Year of the Buffalo.
What originally began as a solo project from front man Jacob Trego, Year of the Buffalo morphed into a quartet that includes multi-instrumentalist Dan Sievers, drummer Jake Rinehart, and phenomenal female vocalist Jalee Clendenin. Jacob had every intention of recording this album as a solo project, but, after the band formed, he told us that "There really is something special about this group. What turned into just a solo project, really panned out to a group forming into a family. We feed off each other. We challenge each other. We want to be great, not for the sake of being great, but for the sake of writing music people can relate to and invest in." It's abundantly clear, when listening to the album, that this group, new as they may be, now how to feed off of one another to create folk music that's both familiar and new, both layered and simple, a sound that is the product of some incredibly talented musicians all being on the same page.
"Darling Laney" begins with "Vagabond", an acoustic song about feeling lost with nothing to hold onto. It's a simple sounding song with harmonized vocals, a hauntingly consistent acoustic guitar, a deep piano bass line and an atmosphere that resembles the line "redemption down the barrel of a gun" quite well. It's a song that tells the story of a lost, broken old man, but you quickly get the sense that the song is autobiographical. Trego told us that "all of the songs I wrote are about a time in my life where I just couldn't get anything right." This is a great beginning to album that is born of a feeling like that.
"Laney's Lullabye", written for a friends baby, is an incredible piece of vocal music. At just under a minute long, it's only negative is its length. It's a beautiful song done beautifully. "The Ballad of Robert Barlage" is another example of storytelling in the folk tradition. It's about a person that you can picture, one that you feel like you know. Whether of not the person is real isn't important; it's an exercise in storytelling, the medium for a message. "Weep no more, for there will be no pain, for I am home."
"Run, River, Run" is a slowly building song featuring a prominent mandolin, one that crescendos with the line "No other love but yours I've known". With a running time of 7+ minutes, "Run, River, Run" is a song that lasts as long as it needs to. Too often bands don't allow their music to fully develop, to fully rise and fall, but Year of the Buffalo allows "Run, River, Run" to be exactly what it needs to be. "The Day I Threw Love Away" is another calm, acoustic, introspective song. It's rare to see the kinds of songs that are brutally honest and that share feelings that are deep and not happy. When a song begins "As I lay down beside you and I whisper your name,/ my soul it remembers the day I threw love away", you immediately get the sense that their a depth and honesty in the songwriting and theme that is rare.
My favorite track on the album is "Widowmaker", a song that is reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens and William Fitzsimmons. It's background "oohs" and strong repeating banjo riff make it stand out. With lyrics to match the two songwriters mentioned ("I've crossed the state line a time or two,/ and I've crossed that same line loving you"), it's clear that this band wears its influences on it's sleeve and knows the sound it's trying to achieve.
"Darling Laney" has me excited to hear more from the Dayton quartet. The only complaint I have is that the album only has 6 songs. The depth and complexity of the songs on the debut EP mislead the listener into thinking they're listening to a much more experienced group. For this band to have created this sound in that short of a time shows that they have the talent and desire to create the kind of music that we crave, music that comes from the heart and music that's as impactful to listen to as I'm sure it was to write.
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Casey Karger is an amateur musician. Give him something that sounds like Nickel Creek, NeedToBreathe, Dawes, or Mumford and Sons and he'll talk to you about them non-stop. You can contact him at casey@eartothegroundmusic.co.
Hey Rosetta! – Second Sight – Start Your Summer Right with Flawless Indie Rock
When the Memorial Day holiday approaches, it becomes obvious that its time to find the perfect winds down, summer driving music. With upbeat tempos, energetic melodies and a very unique sound, Newfoundland, Canada's Hey Rosetta! has given us the perfect album to kick …
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Brandi Carlile – "Wilder (We're Chained)"
Often times we forget about or choose not to cover bands and artists that are a little higher profile. It's the risk we run in our niche, but sometimes, you can't ignore pure, incredible talent. Brandi Carlile is an incredible artist. Her newest …
The Bros. Landreth – Let It Lie and I Am The Fool
The Bros. Landreth are making some phenomenal country tinged folk north of the border and their debut album, Let It Lie, is one of the best I've heard this year. Instead of running down the whole album, I'm gonna hit you with the highlights. …


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Q: tensorflow Found more than one graph event per run I am loading a tensorboard for my ml engine experiment that is running in local mode and got the following warning:
"Found more than one graph event per run, or there was a metagraph containing a graph_def, as well as one or more graph events.  Overwriting the graph with the newest event.
W0825 19:26:12.435613 Reloader event_accumulator.py:311] Found more than one metagraph event per run. Overwriting the metagraph with the newest event."

Originally, I suspected that this was because I had not cleared my --logdir=$OUTPUT_PATH (as other posts suggested -- however, even if I performed rm -rf $OUTPUT_PATH/* I am still getting this error for a local train. Could this error be indicative of a larger issue in my graph?

A: It looks like you may have already come across this post, but without more information, it's the best information I can provide:

This is a known issue, TensorBoard doesn't like it when you write
  multiple event files from separate runs in the same directory. It will
  be fixed if you use a new subdirectory for every run (new
  hyperparameters = new subdirectory).

You may be inadvertently writing multiple event files in the same directory (e.g. training and eval?).
Also, be sure you are returning an appropriate tf.estimator.EstimatorSpec when in modes.EVAL. From the census sample:
if mode == Modes.EVAL:
  labels_one_hot = tf.one_hot(
      label_indices_vector,
      depth=label_values.shape[0],
      on_value=True,
      off_value=False,
      dtype=tf.bool
  )
  eval_metric_ops = {
      'accuracy': tf.metrics.accuracy(label_indices, predicted_indices),
      'auroc': tf.metrics.auc(labels_one_hot, probabilities)
  }
  return tf.estimator.EstimatorSpec(
      mode, loss=loss, eval_metric_ops=eval_metric_ops)

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SQC – Projects
IMS Benchmarking
Dipl.-Inform. Andreas Hoffmann
Business Unit SQC
Apr. 01, 2005 to May 31, 2008
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and represents the reference service delivery platform architecture for the provision of IP Multimedia services within emerging mobile all-IP network environment, such as UMTS Release 5.
The target of the IMS Benchmark project is the definition, development, execution and promotion of an industry wide 3GPP IMS performance benchmark.
The primary goal in this project is to define a comprehensive test environment and unambiguous set of test cases that may be applied to an IMS System under Test (SuT) in order to evaluate its performance. The benchmark is defined for the control plane of an IMS network, which consists of the x-CSCF (Call Session Control Function), HSS (Home Subscriber Server), and SLF (Subscription Locator Function) components, the links over which they perform signalling, and the database transactions required to perform these functions. Performance of the data plane or of the media servers and gateways that also comprise an IMS system are not in the scope of this benchmark.
This website provides the necessary background information on IMS Benchmark and describes the available IMS (target system) and IMS Benchmarking (test system) infrastructures provided by Fraunhofer FOKUS.
Fraunhofer FOKUS is involved in the IMS Benchmarking activities with two Competence Centers:
Modeling and Testing for System and Service Solutions (MOTION) and Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI).
A benchmark test is a procedure in which a test system is provided with a traffic set and a provisioning plan for a System under Test (SuT), provisions the SuT according to the provisioning plan, sends and receives traffic to and from the SuT according to the traffic set, and measures and reports results. Results of a benchmark test include the parameters used to synthesize the traffic set and provisioning plan, the maximum calls per second (CPS) value that the SuT could achieve, and the cost of the SuT.
The benchmark must measure the capacity of the control plane of an IMS system. This consists of the components that perform SIP-based signalling to each other, and to database accesses by those components. The potential requirement to benchmark the user plane (e.g., media processing and transport) is deferred.
Because ultimately the load on an IMS system is imposed by the aggregation of loads from many individual subscribers, the performance of an IMS system, or even of a CPS, is not best measured by message throughput, but rather by the number of subscribers that can use the system simultaneously without reducing the quality of service below an acceptable level for any of the subscribers. The method for defining the load in a given benchmark, and of measuring performance, should be based on the number of subscribers.
Measurement and Visualization
The benchmark must provide measurements at multiple levels of granularity. The performance of a complete network and of primary building blocks (e.g., CSCFs) are of primary importance to SPs; the performance of subsystems of the primary building blocks (perhaps including more than one level of decomposition) are of primary importance to suppliers.
Traffic Model
Although the benchmark will define a traffic load corresponding to thousands of simulated UEs, the method of traffic generation should be defined in such a way that it can be implemented economically by a test system. In other words, the test system should not be required to be enormously more powerful than the SuT, nor should its structure require outrageously expensive licensing arrangements from test system vendors.
Subsystems to be benchmarked
Service/Control/Data Planes (Definition: P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS, AS, MRF, MRFC, PDF)
Session Control (Definition: P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS)
Application Server/MRF/MRFC
P-CSCF
S/I-CSCF (Definition includes an HSS)
Media Resource Function/Control
P-CSCF/PDF
The implementation of IMS used for benchmarking activities is the Open IMS Playground developed at Fokus. The Open IMS @ FOKUS Playground represents the technology basis for all R&D and commercial activities of the FOKUS competence center NGNI (Next Generation Network Infrastructures). As part of its national 3Gbeyond testbed activities and the concept of open technology playground provision, FOKUS has opened July 1st, 2004 the globally first "Open IMS Playground", which can be used by any 3rd party (academia or industry) for IMS infrastructure and IMS application prototyping, proof of concept implementations, interoperability and performance tests. Additionally, coaching and consulting services are provided.
Test System
The system under test is realized as an IMS reference implementation covering the main IMS components in the control path (x-CSCF, HSS). For load generation of SIP or DIAMETER fullstate traffic the standard test notation TTCN-3 is used together with TTworkbench, the TTCN-3 test execution platform. The TTworkbench Enterprise is a joint development of FOKUS and the FOKUS spin-off Testing Technologies IST GmbH. The platform deploys, creates and coordinates distributed parallel test components emulating user equipment on multiple hosts. It forms a base for the test system for IMS benchmarking developed by FOKUS. The abstract test suite for IMS benchmarking is realized in TTCN-3. Various traffic models are implemented and various Quality of Service parameters like transactions/calls per second, message delays, numbers of supported users and numbers of dropped calls are defined and measured. Tests are executed and results analyzed in the IMS benchmarking test environment. The project's current system under test is the session control plane of the IMS core. Other configurations, e.g. data planes, application servers, PTT (Push To Talk), are being considered as test targets as well. The project initiated a Special Interest Group (SIG) for IMS Performance Benchmarking, a working party that will submit proposals to standards organizations and forums.
Telecom service providers (SPs) are quickly evolving their networks from legacy technologies to what might be termed "fourth generation" or "3G Beyond" technologies.
IMS supports a rich set of services available to end users on either wireless or wired user equipment (UE), provided via a uniform interface provided by a subscriber's home service provider (SP) in cooperation with visited service providers. Services are provided via an "overlay" technique over multiple service provider standards.
Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) all along the architectural hierarchy, assuming that IMS represents a growth market, are attempting to develop not merely products for IMS networks, but architectures as well. The quest for new architectures represents a view that current processor, network, and server architectures are not sufficient to support wide IMS deployment. Examples of such work include:
Advanced Telecommunications Architecture (ATCA, [ATCA]), a set of existing and emerging standards for the physical packaging of bladed servers and communications fabrics.
Fabric standards, such as Infiniband, PCI Express, Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI, [ASI]), RapidIO, and Gigabit Ethernet (e.g., IEEE 802.1, 802.3).
Technologies for offloading packet processing, such as network processors and other multicore processors.
Real-time and carrier-grade operating systems, such as the carrier-grade Linux releases of Montavista and Red Hat.
Middleware architected for high availability, such as defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) and the Service Availability Forum ([SAFORUM]).
Application development environments and interfaces, such as defined by the Parlay Group and the Java Community Process (e.g., JAIN).
The number of technological variables is so large that some reasonable ground rules for defining an architecture need to be put in place. SPs require guidance for making decisions among suppliers, and suppliers all along the architectural hierarchy need guidance to develop the right products.
IMS defines a set of components:
Call Session Control Function (CSCF), which acts as Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF) in Visited network, Serving CSCF (S-CSCF) in Home network or Interrogating CSCF (I-CSCF) in Home network, to route and control the session establishment
Home Subscriber Server (HSS) with AAA functionality and unique service profile for each user
Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) with Signalling Gateway, which controls Media Gateway and performs protocol conversion between ISUP and SIP
Media Gateway (MGW) , which interacts with MGCF for resource control
Multimedia Resource Function (MRF) , which controls media stream resources
Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF) , which selects the network in which PSTN breakout is to occur
Application Servers (AS), which offers value added services
The goal of IMS Benchmark project is to define a performance benchmark for the control plane of an IMS network, which consists of the x-CSCF, HSS, and SLF (Subscription Locator Function) components, the links over which they perform signalling, and the database transactions required to perform these functions. Performance of the data plane or of the media servers and gateways that also comprise an IMS system are not in the scope of this benchmark.


A few years back economist Heidi Hartmann, President of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research, reported that if the gender wage gap were eliminated today, the stimulus effect would grow the U.S. economy by at least 3 to 4 percent. To put that in perspective, the $800 billion economic stimulus package that Congress passed in 2009 is estimated to have grown the GDP by less than 1.5 percent overall.
Once I got a handle on the job and explored past budgets and annual accountings, I discovered I was being paid 32 percent less than my male predecessor. I was aghast, and spent the next six months doing my best to shore up the inequity, but I was so focused on my failure to do advance research on the value of the position, and the maddening injustice of it all, I was blinded about the trickle down economic impact not just for me, but for the organization I worked for.
Looking back, I now see I was focused on my dilemma as a fairness issue, which can lead to all manner of whining and grumbling. I should have tied the inequity to the loss of bottom-line benefits for my organization, but by that time I wasn't feeling exactly incentivized to go the extra mile and work beyond my role as if I were going somewhere in the company.
I was doing my best to hide the impact of raising a family. My husband was reveling in it.
Admittedly, my situation is different in that I had access to the data that helped me close my personal wage gap. For many workplaces, salary transparency is not carved into the mission and values statements adorning employee handbooks and boardroom walls—although we now know it is illegal to disallow employees to discuss salary.
So all of us might do ourselves a good turn by assuming we will be offered up to and maybe more than 32 percent less than our male peers, and researching the heck out of the market value of your job, and negotiating.
I, like many women, preferred to negotiate on behalf of others. Throughout my career, I would go to the mat for a team member or a co-worker, or lobby for someone to be included on a new project or initiative.
But failing to negotiate for ourselves has a substantial emotional impact on our self-worth, and that's what silences us and diminishes our true power and value in the workplace.
This lower self-esteem makes it less likely that we'll speak up for ourselves, and that influences our companies' bottom lines, and our own bottom lines. So our self-worth impacts our net worth.
This disparity also impacts the greater good. When my business partner and I speak at conferences, we often cite the research that by failing to negotiate for our first jobs out of college, we stand to lose up to $1 million dollars over the course of our careers.
When we ask women what they would do with a million dollars, they say they'd like to take care of things like education for their children, travel, or deferred maintenance on their homes or cars. But by far the most common responses I hear have to do with solving global food-water-shelter issues.
For example, a few years ago I presented a negotiation workshop for the Journalism and Women Symposium keynoted by Gloria Steinem and Keesha Gaskins—a group of 230 incredibly hard-working, powerful women journalists.
Their response to the million-dollar question was solving the global economic issues vis-à-vis freedom and equality for all women. That was easy. This particular group of women is tenaciously advocacy-minded.
I then asked them to answer this question: "Tell me what makes you the person for the job you have…what makes you powerful in the hands of your employer and your audience?" In other words, how do your strengths and contributions map to the goals (and pain) of your organization?
They were quiet for what seemed like an eternity. They were mentally tracking and connecting their daily workplace activities to the value they provided to not only their employer, but to their readers, their communities, their world.
These women journalists told me that the great recession had resulted in more layoffs for women than men (citing journalism as the original "good ol' boys network"), making them even more fearful about asking for higher pay. But they also acknowledged that their resistance to self-promotion, and being less skilled in negotiation strategies—like framing their strengths and accomplishments as benefits to their employer—were at least equal factors influencing the results of their pay increase requests.
For these women journalists, the most motivating and practical reason for putting the oxygen mask on their personal economic wellbeing was being able to tie it to the reputation and profit of the organizations they worked for.
Why that makes me particularly happy is that the story of the wage gap is now being written more often and more accurately not only as a gender issue, but as a strategic misstep in the wellbeing of all companies and our world.
I always tell my clients, especially those who are parents pursuing senior roles, that there is no need to ask for flexibility during the hiring process, but to assume it. At the end of day, it's about results. Numbers. Getting the job done. How you structure your flex and remote work is up to you and ultimately more about how you design your productivity and communicate with your team and with leadership.


Karen Kay's Pianorocketship: A Wandering Minstrel I - Why am I singing in the streets?
A Wandering Minstrel I - Why am I singing in the streets?
Well, yes of course it is that and what else?
Is it to be free from the strictures of finding a venue; getting permission to play; finding an audience; trying not to be out of pocket; asking friends to come (again) to hear me play; hoping to earn some money for a change?
Is it to start from the beginning again? Is it a response to everything I read on Facebook and beyond? Is it to see if I can just go out pretty naked and connect with people one by one? Can I bring a smile or a piece of happiness with music? Is it to remind myself why I play music (after all the verb is play... can I just play and see what happens)? Is there xenophobia in my own community? Where is my community anyway? Can 'just' playing music make a difference?
And you were fabulous. I am so proud of you, for your voice and for your courage!
Thank you! You are fabulous too!


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Photo: Gary Astridge
On September 5, 1964 the Ludwig Drum Company presented Ringo with a gold plated Supersensitive snare drum as a thank you for choosing to play Ludwig drums.
Ringo using a cowbell live. Now that's rare.
These are a set of Tabla drums found at Abbey Road studios
Here is the hi hat tambourine bar used during the Let It Be sessions. I am not sure of the manufacturer BUT I have found two during my years of collecting. I have these reproduced to original specifications and sell them at Shop.RingosBeatleKits.com.
This is a Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl (OBP) Jazz Festival snare drum with a four digit badge number (6734). This badge number helped determine that this drum came with Ringo's second OBP drum kit, which was purchased at Manny's Music Store in Manhattan on February 9, 1964.
When The Beatles first came to the US in 64', Ringo brought with him a new Beatles logo drum head, his cymbals and the OBP snare drum from his first Ludwig OBP kit, which was left behind in the UK. The purchase of the second OBP kit was prearranged for the reason that in the near future, Ringo was going to need one kit for the recording studio and another for the movie set of A Hard Day's Night. Filming was scheduled to start shortly after the band return to England.
It just so happened that Ringo used his first OBP snare drum throughout his time with The Beatles. All photos, videos, film clips and first hand accounts verify this as fact. The snare drum shown above may have been used by Ringo in the studio but there is no public documentation to verify. What has been verified is that Paul McCartney did use this snare drum.
When recorded his first solo album "McCartney", he borrowed a combination of first two drum kits. He used the bass drum and tom from Ringo's first OBP and the snare drum and floor tom from his second. Paul continued to used this mixed kit when his began recording some of his initial Wings tunes.
This snare drum was sold at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills on December 4, 2015 for $75,000 to an anonymous buyer.
It was always thought that this drum kit was delivered by mistake and used until the NEW Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl kit arrived from Manny's Music Store, just in time for the Sunday morning rehearsal. New information has come to light that another Music Store a few blocks from the theater often rented gear to the Ed Sullivan Show. This WAS a rental kit, which makes sense, especially with seeing the older style hardware. Manny's Music Store delivered Ringo's new Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl kit in time for Sunday morning rehearsals.
This is an actual set of Ludwig Expando Tuning Bongos
Here's a bottom view of the snare drum as it looks today. Ringo claims that he never played this drum. In fact, he has said that the first and last time that he saw this snare drum was when he gave it to Mal Evans right after he received it. You can see that some of the snare wires are missing. You can also see strips of masking tape on the outer portion of the bottom head as well as inside the shell. The two photos below also show wear and missing parts. There is also a strip of medical gauze tape on the inside of the head in the center of the drum.
It would be interesting to ask Ringo's son, Zak, if he remembers using this snare drum.
During the filming of the Hello Goodbye promo film, Ringo used his 1964 Oyster Black Pearl Super Classic and the two kits. The small White Marine Pearl kit shown above was a Star Micro Bop drum kit aka "Midget Drums." It was rumored that Ringo gave this kit to his son Zak as his first drum kit.
Ringo using a set of timpani drums during the recording of Every Little Thing.
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The day before the show, Manny's delivered a used Ludwig White Marine Pearl Super Classic kit. Ringo used this kit for Saturday's rehearsal and Ringo's new Oyster Black Pearl kit was delivered for the Sunday morning dress rehearsal.
Here's a set of Ludwig Expando bongos as seen in the movie A Hard Day's Night. Note the creative tuning design.
These are photos of Ringo using a set on ASBA conga drums during the recording of A Day In The Life. Here's a link with more information, which was provided by Brendan Peleolazar:
Six Beatle Drum Sets Overview
Premier Set
Ludwig Sets 1 and 2
A Snare So Rare
Ludwig Maple Drum Set
Muffling Techniques
Speaking & Displays
Here's a set of Premier bongo's that Ringo was using in 1963
This drum was on display that New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan from July 7, 2010 (Ringo's 70th birthday) through December, 2010. Press reports during this time, stated that this snare drum was used during the Beatles 1964 US tour. This information is NOT true. NOTE: This was the first time that any of Ringo's drums have ever been on display.
I have documented the Ludwig Silver Sparkle kit and it is in great shape., It's a custom made kit, the drum shell sizes are: 28"x14" bass, 20"x18" floor tom, 16"x11" tom & a 20"x6.5" snare. The snare drum has two dial-up mufflers and Two-Tone Wire-Gut ( calf intestine) snares, which were identified in a Ludwig 1960 catalog. Two-Tone snares were used on Ludwig parade / field snare drums. (Thanks to Paul Nieft Jr for this tidbit). The snare stand was modified by having one of the three snare basket arms lengthened to hold the extremely wide drum. This drum kit was sold on December 4, 2015 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills for $115,200.
These two Ludwig tambourines were used during the recording of Hey Bulldog. Interesting to see Paul using a tea towel to help protect his hand from blistering. These tambourines are very heavy and hard to control over a period of time.
Look closely at the front and back hoops and you will see small areas of missing black paint. You can also see a missing section of inlay near the top of the front hoop.
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Fernando Alonso, the new and youngest-ever F1 World Champion, may not have to worry too much about the cost of his car insurance premiums for a while, but for many 'rookie' racing drivers in the early stages of their career the cost of simply getting around away from the race track can be expensive.
Occupation: 'racing driver' is likely to send many insurers diving for cover - or not - if you see what we mean, but it doesn't have to cost a fortune for racing drivers or those with other unusual occupations, to go the supermarket or take the kids to school.
Hyperformance, the insurance intermediary that specialises in providing cover for high performance vehicles, is also able to deal with finding cover for those with a range of unusual or extreme jobs.
In fact, Hyperformance has insured drivers from a range of formulas for a number of years as well as footballers, Dj's and even exotic dancers! The company says that by considering all the facts it can often persuade insurers that the risks are not as great as they might first think.
For a start, most racing drivers do not race around the roads: they leave their living on the track. And whilst some do drive sports cars, others like former F1 Champion Damon Hill are just as likely to be seen at the wheel of a small saloon.
The best are, also, by necessity, out of the country for large parts of the year, so are not on the road as much as an average motorist. And whilst they are away there's a fair chance their 'non-work' car will be off the road and in a secure location, putting it at much lower risk from theft.
Added to this, when they are on the roads it's pretty fair to say their driving skills are above average. They are much more likely to anticipate problems early and when they do occur have a much better ability to avoid accidents.
"Putting the words 'racing' and 'driver' together and then adding 'insurance' might seem a recipe for trouble but the facts and the statistics tell a different story," comments Steve McPherson from Hyperformance.
"When you balance their skills, experience and lifestyle against the trappings of 'star status', many racing drivers start to become a better risk than expected. It's just a question of weighing up all the facts and delivering the best deal we can find.
"Whilst this is an extreme example, the point is that by treating every customer as an individual we are able to negotiate rates for those that many other companies would not cover. Extreme occupations such as those who race for a living are one such example, but exactly the same principle can be applied to younger drivers, those with driving convictions or owners of high performance vehicles."
France were again ready for the start, this time from a standing position and made no mistake by being on the inside for corner one and coming out ahead of Portugal and the Czech Republic.


1 – Basic Life Skills: Your teen needs to know how to do laundry. They need to be able to grocery shop and be able to make a quick meal. Most college campuses have dorms with kitchens. So make sure they can cook. Be able to catch a bus if they don't have their car with them. without going into debt. The need for money management is paramount. I went to college and within six months I was in debt and sending out applications to get a job to pay my bills.
2 – Money Management: They need to be comfortable to go shopping without going into debt. The need for money management is paramount. I went to college and within six months I was in debt and sending out applications to get a job to pay my bills.
3 – Time Management: You're not going to be there to make sure they're up to go to classes. They need to be able to handle getting projects done and not have to pull all-nighters if they can avoid it. Although, we do know all-nighters and college classes go hand in hand. But, they need to be smart about WHEN they have to pull those.
4 – Self-Discipline: They are away from home for the first time. No curfew and parents at the door looking at their watches? Let's be honest. The first year is going to be the hardest. We can only try to prepare them to accept the consequences if they don't practice self-discipline.
5 – Emotional Coping Skills: This is going to be hard. In the end, no matter how much they want to be away from home? They are going to be away from everything they are familiar with. They are going to be lonely if they don't have friends going to the same college with them. For this one, I strongly recommend that the teen joins a forum for incoming students. Ask the college if they can have the contact email address for their roommate if it's not in the communication received.
To help get your teen prepared, here are a few books I recommend for them to start reading.
In conclusion, these are just a very few life skills a teen needs to have before going to college. What other skills would you suggest to that college student?
I remember when my kids went off to college. Thankfully, they were prepared for the most part. I think I was the one who wasn't prepared. 🙂 I cried all the way home the day I left my oldest child at college. These life skills are spot on!
These are so important to learn, but also to teach your kids. Our kids have to be self-sufficient and I am hoping that I am doing the right things with my own daughters!
I could not agree more. When my stepson went off, I also made sure he could cook, knew how to clean and could cook himself a decent meal.
These are all absolute musts. The kids need to be able to cook. do laundry, and handle the stresses of college life. It's SO not all fun and games.
They need all these skills and don't wait until they are in high school to start teaching then these skills.
Laundry and cooking are definitely essential. I'm glad my mom taught me how to do both in my pre-teens.
These are definitely skills your teen will need in college. Being able to laundry is really important so they don't bring all their laundry home for break!
I have worked with youth groups and it always amazes me how many are lacking basic life skills. I agree that we need to help them be prepared with skills to run a home and manage their time and money.
Time management is a skill that everyone needs to learn at every and any age. I don't think that a lot of people can manage a lot of their schedules. Laundry was an easy one to learn!
These are all great things to teach your children before they head off for college. My kids stayed with me while they were attending college because we live relatively near the university. My cousin's only child was the one who had to stay in the dorm. It was my cousin who was more freaked out than her daughter. Good thing my niece is cool, calm, and responsible. She'll be graduating this year.
These are all such important skills to teach your children. It's so important to teach them to be independent and learn to manage their time an money from an early age.
I love all these tips. AS early as possible, I am trying to teach my two kids all the things they need to know when they go to college and be on their own.
Time management is the struggle for my son. He can do laundry and all of that with no problem. He is only 12 so I have time, I hope he gets it before college.
Yes yes yes. All of these tips are amazing. I wish I knew about these before I went to University, because they would have been so helpful!
Good tips for parents. I didn't know any of that when I went to college. I had to adapt and learn on the fly, which most kids that age are able to do, but it's better to prepare them.
You have explained every necessary skill that teens need to consider before going to college. Thanks for the great tips.
This brings back a lot of memories. I still remember those days especially the cooking and budgeting stuff.
I have a daughter the same age and yes I am overwhelmed by all the things I am going to have to do to get her to college. The tips you gave are very essential and so practical I will keep them in mind as I have been slowly trying to help her become self sufficient and independent.
This is really awesome. My oldest is heading to high school next year so we have a little bit more time but this is all great to know and consider!
Every teen needs to learn these skills whether they are heading to college or not. These are great life skills for every teen!
These are definitely important skills to have before leaving home. Uni is such an important, valuable and fun filled time that young people don't want to be stressing about the basic skills!
These are all so very important and I totally agree that teenagers should know all of these before they graduate high school.
This is so true! I live in student accommodation at university and so many people still don't know how to do laundry or cook for themselves!
I agree that time management is crucial when you go to college! I would add that work / life balance is important too. Knowing when to focus and when to have fun matters.
We just recently had my two older daughters start the laundry. If they can figure out iphones and apps, they can do this. Now, I need to show them the art of folding.
Money management is a must. I would have loved to have some financial training before I started college too.