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Hearthstone's unloved Priest class is getting a complete re-work
By Luke Winkie
Blizzard finally answers the question: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent Classic Priest set?"
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Priest has always been the brussel sprout in the roast dinner of Hearthstone classes. Loved by a select few, despised by everyone else. Many of the problems stem from Priest's evergreen base and classic card sets, which are a clunky mix of hard-control answers like Shadow Word: Death and Mass Dispel, and dreaded combo enablers like Divine Spirit and Inner Fire. Historically, that has meant the design team has needed to shore up the weaknesses of the class—like the lack of a good 2-Mana minion—with expansion cards, but as these rotate out the same problems resurface. As a result, Priest spends most of its days propping up the power ranking, barring an occasional OP combo deck. (Yes, we're looking at you, Raza.)
The situation has long been accepted as one of those unfortunate but unfixable problems that's baked deep into the code. But not anymore. At the start of each calendar year, Blizzard makes changes to Hearthstone to mark the end of a previous cycle and herald a new one. Hearthstone's 2020 has been dubbed The Year of the Phoenix, and the dev team is breaking a lot of rules. Not only do we have a brand new class, better value thanks to the elimination of card duplicates from packs, and now, a total revamp of Priest's core cards.
In total, six old Priest cards are being removed from Standard. Say goodbye to Prophet Velen, Divine Spirit, Auchenai Soulpriest, Holy Fire, Shadowform, and *gasp* Northshire Cleric—all of which are being sent to the Hall of Fame.
These Basic and Classic Priest cards are all being sent to the Hall of Fame in April. (Image credit: Blizzard)
Blizzard is printing new cards to replace them in the Classic set, while also rebalancing seven cards that aren't getting axed. Taken as a whole, it's clear that Blizzard wants Anduin to cement himself as a control bastion, capable of administering massive buffs, huge board clears, and generating debilitating card advantage to squeeze the life out of any deck that burns out fast. The great direct-damage, Mage-pantomime era is gone as Mind Blast is joined in the Hall of Fame by Holy Fire which, to be clear, wasn't even good.
You can see all the replacement Priest cards in the gallery below, but let's go through a few highlights.
Priest's new class legendary is Natalie Seline, an eight mana 8/1 with an effect that will remind long-time players of Vol'jin from Goblins vs. Gnomes. She destroys a minion and adds their current health to her pool. So, eat up a Deathwing, and you have an 8/12. That's a hard removal option packaged with a body to stabilize your end of the board, which, on average, is going to be a lot more useful than Prophet Velen.
Kul Tiran Champion is going to quickly enshrine itself as one of the most powerful two-drops in the game: It's a 2-Mana 2/3, with the ability to buff another friendly minion by two health. For comparison, Shattered Sun Cleric is a three mana 3/2 that buffs a minion +1/+1.
This will be an auto-include for any board-centric Priest deck. For years, the class has struggled to find a suitable early game minion. Back in the day Priests would run, like, River Crocolisk. Yikes. Kul Tiran Champion honestly feels like the Priest equivalent of Sorcerer's Apprentice in terms of ubiquity.
Board clears have always been an issue for Priest, which is weird, considering every other control class has efficient tools for mowing down aggro decks. That will change with the introduction of Shadow Word: Ruin, which destroys everything on the board with five or more attack for the oh-so-low cost of four mana. That will put pressure on aggressive decks to keep their attack levels down, and will also be a great answer to cards like Chef Nomi that generate a whole board full of big bois.
Now let's take a look at a gallery of the old Priest cards which are staying in Standard, but having their cost or text change so they better fit with what Blizzard wants Priest to become.
Remember Holy Smite? That two-damage spell that only saw play in fringe burn builds? Well, now it can no longer go face, but is arguably the most efficient early-game removal tool in the Hearthstone. One Mana, deal three to a minion. The only comparison I can think of is Wing Blast, which required a distinct set of circumstances to proc. Holy Smite is actually good now! What a world!
Meanwhile, Power World: Shield now costs zero mana but doesn't draw a card. It's probably awful! There's also a 1-Mana 2/1 called Scarlet Subjugator that reduces the attack of another minion! And Temple Enforcer might see play! Go take a look at the updated Priest catalogue in our galleries and get ready for Anduin's rise to glory*.
(*PC Gamer makes no promises on this front, the class may still be dumpster tier. We'll just have to wait and see what long-suffering Priest main Zetalot builds, assuming he quits Runeterra and comes back.)
Luke Winkie is a freelance journalist and contributor to many publications, including PC Gamer, The New York Times, Gawker, Slate, and Mel Magazine. In between bouts of writing about Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Twitch culture here on PC Gamer, Luke also publishes the newsletter On Posting (opens in new tab). As a self-described "chronic poster," Luke has "spent hours deep-scrolling through surreptitious Likes tabs to uncover the root of intra-publication beef and broken down quote-tweet animosity like it's Super Bowl tape." When he graduated from journalism school, he had no idea how bad it was going to get.


This will afford the chance for more fans to see him live that have not been able to in the past. His baseball stadium tour will kick off on March 9, 2019, at the Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. He will be performing one stadium show a month, in a state outside of his native New York.
Other tour stops will include shows at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 27, the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 24, the Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland on July 26, Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, on August 8, as well as Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts on September 14. On June 22, Joel and his band will be heading to Europe to play at Wembley Stadium in London. This stadium tour will wrap up on October 12 at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas.
He sold out the first show ever in Camden Yards in less than 30 minutes right after the public online sale. Joel also sold out Fenway Park, where he returns for his sixth consecutive year.
All of these stadium shows will be in addition to Joel's monthly residency at Madison Square Garden. On Thursday, January 24, Joel will be playing his 60th consecutive residency show at the hallowed venue, in celebration of the five year anniversary of his residency.
Speaking of the "World's Most Famous Arena," as Digital Journal previously reported, the "Piano Man" will be performing his 65th consecutive show at Madison Square Garden, as part of his residency, on June 2.
To learn more about Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Billy Joel and his tour dates, check out his official website.


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This list is for recognised pioneering explorers of the polar regions. It does not include subsequent travelers and expeditions.

Polar explorers

 Jameson Adams
 Stian Aker
 Valerian Albanov
 Roald Amundsen
 Salomon August Andrée
 Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou
 Henryk Arctowski
 Josée Auclair
 Mikhail Babushkin
 Konstantin Badygin
 Karl Baer
 Georgiy Baidukov
 Ann Bancroft
 Willem Barents
 Michael Barne
 Robert Bartlett
 Nikifor Begichev
 Fabian von Bellingshausen
 Robert M. Berry
 Edward W. Bingham
 Olav Bjaaland
 Alfred Björling
 Carsten Borchgrevink
 Jon Bowermaster
 Henry Robertson Bowers
 Louise Arner Boyd
 Edward Bransfield
 Philip Brocklehurst
 William Speirs Bruce
 Georgy Brusilov
 Daniel Byles
 Richard Evelyn Byrd
 Todd Carmichael
 Umberto Cagni
 Jacques Cartier
 Jean-Baptiste Charcot
 Semion Chelyuskin
 Apsley Cherry-Garrard
 Vasili Chichagov
 Valery Chkalov
 Jeremy Clarkson
 George Comer
 Sebastian Copeland
 Frederick A. Cook
 James Cook
 Henry Cookson
 Augustine Courtauld
 Albert P. Crary
 Tom Crean
 Lars Christensen
 Andrew Croft
 Francis Crozier
 Ann Daniels
 Edgeworth David
 Jason De Carteret
 Edwin de Haven
 George W. De Long
 Nina Demme
 Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski
 Erich von Drygalski
 George J. Dufek
 Jules Dumont d'Urville
 Lincoln Ellsworth
 Edward Evans
 Edgar Evans
 Sir Ranulph Fiennes
 Dwayne Fields
 John Franklin
 Peter Freuchen
 Martin Frobisher
 Vivian Fuchs
 Tobias Furneaux
 Yakov Gakkel
 Matvei Gedenschtrom
 Adrien de Gerlache
 Johann Georg Gmelin
 Adolphus Greely
 Pen Hadow
 Charles Francis Hall
 Helmer Hanssen
 Bernhard Hantzsch
 Sverre Hassel
 Adrian Hayes
 Isaac Israel Hayes
 Samuel Hearne
 Matthew A. Henson
 Wally Herbert
 Alex Hibbert
 Edmund Hillary
 John Hornby
 Andreas Hovgaard
 Henry Hudson
 Edward Israel
 Hjalmar Johansen
 Antony Jinman
 Erling Kagge
 Otto Kalvitsa
 Elisha Kent Kane
 Sydney L. Kirkby
 Gerald Ketchum
 Maria Klenova
 Lauge Koch
 Aleksandr Kolchak
 Nikolai Kolomeitsev
 Alexander Kuchin
 Paul Landry
 Dmitry Laptev
 Khariton Laptev
 Carl Anton Larsen
 Georges Lecointe
 Christian Leden
 Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
 Percy Lemon
 Godske Lindenov
 Martin Lindsay
 Fyodor Litke
 Ivan Lyakhov
 Alistair Mackay
 Alexander MacKenzie
 Aeneas Mackintosh
 Cecil Madigan
 Rune Malterud
 Stepan Malygin
 Donal T. Manahan
 Albert Hastings Markham
 James Marr
 Eric Marshall
 Fyodor Matisen
 Fyodor Matyushkin
 Douglas Mawson
 James May
 Francis Leopold McClintock
 Jim McNeill
 Janice Meek
 Alexander Middendorf
 Ejnar Mikkelsen
 Fyodor Minin
 Gerhard Muller
 Fridtjof Nansen
 George Nares
 Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
 Edward Nelson
 Umberto Nobile
 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
 Otto Nordenskjöld
 Børge Ousland
 Dmitry Ovtsyn
 Pyotr Pakhtusov
 Nathaniel Palmer
 Ivan Papanin
 William Parry
 Charlie Paton
 Fiann Paul
 Robert Edwin Peary
 Yakov Permyakov
 Eric Philips
 Ralph Plaisted
 Fedot Popov
 Richard Profit
 Vasili Pronchishchev
 Maria Pronchishcheva
 Lewis Gordon Pugh
 Emil Racovita
 Pierre-Esprit Radisson
 John Rae
 Knud Rasmussen
 Andrew Regan
 George W. Rice
 John Richardson
 Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
 Quintin Riley
 Alfred Ritscher
 Edith Ronne
 Finn Ronne
 James Clark Ross
 John Ross
 Vladimir Rusanov
 John Rymill
 Rudolf Samoylovich
 Yakov Sannikov
 Ben Saunders
 Otto Schmidt
 William Scoresby
 Robert Falcon Scott
 Georgy Sedov
 Ernest Shackleton
 Nobu Shirase
 Pyotr Shirshov
 Paul Siple
 Mikhail Somov
 Pavel Senko
 Mikhail Stadukhin
 Vilhjalmur Stefansson
 Will Steger
 Otto Sverdrup
 Robert Swan
 Eduard Toll
 Yevgeny Tolstikov
 Alexey Tryoshnikov
 Avgust Tsivolko
 Nikolay Urvantsev
 Georgy Ushakov
 Merkury Vagin
 Boris Vilkitsky
 Vladimir Vize
 Lawrence Wager
 Paul Walker
 Carl Frederick Wandel
 Gino Watkins
 Richard Weber
 James Weddell
 Walter Wellman
 Frank Wild
 Hubert Wilkins
 Edward Wilson
 Oscar Wisting
 Frank Worsley
 Ferdinand von Wrangel

See also
 List of Russian explorers
 List of female explorers and travelers

References

History-related lists
Geography-related lists
Antarctica-related lists

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The Open Access publisher BioMed Central (BMC) has just emailed me this statement concerning the controversial Research Works Act (RWA).
BioMed Central strongly supports the NIH's role in enhancing open access through the operation of PubMed Central and through its Public Access Policy for employees and grantees. We are opposed to the RWA's proposal to roll back that policy, and feel that the success of open access publishers such as BioMed Central clearly demonstrates the invalidity of the arguments, made by supporters of the RWA, that public access undermines the ability of publishers to seek fair recompense for the service they provide.
BioMed Central has contributed to the latest OSTP RFIs on public access to peer-reviewed research, and to research data, and we will be posting those responses on the BioMed Central blog shortly.
OASPA [the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] will be issuing a statement relating to RWA shortly on behalf of its member open access publishers, including BioMed Central.
It is expected that BMC's parent company, Springer, will make its position regarding the RWA known at the American Library Association (ALA) meeting in Dallas tomorrow. (Now available here).
Neither BMC nor Springer is a member of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which supports the RWA. However, a number of AAP members have disavowed the RWA, including MIT Press, ITHAKA, Pennsylvania State University Press, California University Press, Rockefeller University Press, Nature Publishing Group, and the non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes the journal Science.
Some other AAP members have opted to stay neutral (see here and here).


o the casual viewer, the play wouldn't really seem like anything out of the ordinary.
St. Luke's School was playing The Ethel Walker School in January 2017. St. Luke's had the ball. Maya Klein stood at the top of the arc, surveying the court for a moment as her teammate Sydney Lowery waited on Klein's left wing.
Klein attempted a shot from deep that just didn't fall. An Ethel Walker player couldn't secure the rebound, and knocked the ball toward half court. Lowery streaked to the top of the arc as one of her teammates grabbed the ball, turned, and fired a pass to her.
Lowery caught the ball, pivoted to face the hoop, and hesitated only for a moment before making her move. She dribbled a few times, hovering around the top of the arc, before suddenly exploding toward the basket. Her defender was too slow to stop her, and Lowery went up strong to the hoop and laid the ball in.
Nothing fancy, right? A long shot, a long rebound, and a guard driving aggressively to the hoop for a basket. Plays like that happen all the time in basketball. Nothing to write home about.
Except this time, it really was something to write home about. Immediately after Lowery made her layup, the gym erupted in cheers. A timeout was called and Lowery's family joined her on the court as the St. Luke's athletic director handed her a commemorative ball. See, this wasn't just any old basket, and they weren't just any old points.
It was Lowery's record-setting 2,000th point for St. Luke's School. She was 16 points shy at tip-off, and she reached the milestone in the first eight minutes of the game.
Matt Ward, in his first season as head coach of St. Luke's girls' basketball, was overjoyed for his senior. It was the latest achievement in an illustrious high school career that saw Lowery commit to Boston College at the end of her freshman year, tally 1,000 career points only six games into her sophomore season, serve as a two-time captain for the Storm, set a career point total record with 2,165 scored over the course of four years, and nab multiple New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) All-League and All-Star honors.
For Lowery, the accomplishments were pretty sweet—but getting to share them with her friends and family was even sweeter. And scoring her 2,000th career point felt much nicer than scoring her 1,000th career point. First of all, she was the first player in St. Luke's history to ever reach that milestone. Plus, her mother, who'd been unable to attend her 1,000th point game because of health reasons, was there to proudly cheer Lowery on against The Ethel Walker School. And it was the last game of basketball Lowery's grandfather ever saw her play.
Lowery carried this selfless spirit through the remainder of her senior season, doing everything in her power to help St. Luke's advance as far as possible. And when the Storm were knocked out of the NEPSAC playoffs, and her high school career was suddenly over, Lowery knew she had to look ahead to the next challenge: competing in the ACC.
owery was always destined to be an athlete.
Her mother played high school basketball before deciding not to pursue a college career, and then coached when Lowery was young. Her father played college football at Fayetteville State. They encouraged Lowery to pursue sports from a young age growing up in Shelton, Conn.
She started out her athletic career with karate, but was soon tempted to give basketball a try. She'd played a little bit at school, and she found herself really enjoying it. When she was 9 or 10 years old, Lowery took the plunge and joined a travel team.
Karate fell to the wayside, and so did most other sports. She gave cross country a try, but basketball was her first and most important love. Lowery played on high-level basketball teams with a year-round time commitment, so she didn't even really have time for other sports.
Lowery found her first basketball heroes on the courts at local high schools. She attended as many high school games as she could, eagerly observing the athletes and figuring out how she could improve her own game to match theirs.
Lowery never backed down from a challenge. She always played up, competing against older players in higher age groups, forever the youngest member of any team she was on. This made her tougher, both physically and mentally—playing against bigger bodies forced Lowery to become stronger and unafraid of contact, while playing against more experienced bodies forced her to become a better decision-maker and raised her basketball IQ.
She began to compete in New York, playing for the New York Gauchos organization and traveling to the city for tournaments. Everything in New York is bigger, and playing there offered Lowery more opportunities than she'd ever had before. But when the time came to choose a school to take her game to a higher level, Lowery stayed close to home, opting to attend St. Luke's in New Canaan, Conn.
As an eighth grader, she entered a basketball program that was weak, one that nobody considered a local powerhouse. Lowery was determined to change that. After all, she knew that she was serious about basketball, and she knew she wanted to play in college, and she knew that by bringing her focus, drive, and work ethic to practice every day, she could slowly shape the players around her, too.
According to Ward, Lowery was instrumental in building St. Luke's into a perennial competitor. Through her actions, she set expectations for her teammates and established a standard to which they all played. This paid off almost immediately—by the time Lowery was a sophomore, St. Luke's was winning more games and going further in the playoffs. When she was a junior, a freshman class of highly talented players had joined her at St. Luke's, and the team suddenly became a serious regional threat.
Lowery gave her heart and soul to St. Luke's, and the day her high school career ended was emotionally charged. As Lowery came off the court crying, she hugged Ward for almost a full minute. She had devoted so much time and energy to turn St. Luke's around, and all of a sudden, her time was up.
owery's path to BC was clear early on. When she was in eighth grade, she first noticed college coaches watching her travel games, and from that moment on she knew she could play Division I college basketball.
She first got in contact with BC during the summer after her eighth grade year, asking head coach Erik Johnson if she could go to BC's summer camp. For his part, Johnson was floored the first time he spoke to Lowery.
Lowery began making campus visits during her freshman year, and was quickly sold on BC. She and her family placed great emphasis on academics, and BC certainly checked that box. Besides that, it was in the Northeast, so it was relatively close to home. Lowery just felt right at home, and so she made her decision to commit by the end of her freshman year—the earliest recruit in Johnson's 24 years of experience at the Division I level.
Her phone call with Johnson demonstrates what makes Lowery such a fierce competitor on the court—her tenacity and emotional strength. Lowery matured early, both as an athlete and as a person, through playing against older girls and experiencing her mother's health issues. Her mental toughness has translated well to her game. Lowery's coaches praise her laser focus and complete dedication to whatever task is placed in front of her. Ward called her the toughest player he's ever coached.
According to Johnson, Lowery and her teammate Milan Bolden-Morris are unlike most freshmen during their transition to playing college ball. While it might be easy for most freshmen to become overwhelmed in a new situation, juggling academics with a completely new level of athletics and trying to establish an identity in college, Lowery and Bolden-Morris have worked hard to settle in and prepare for the season ahead.
It isn't surprising, given that one of Lowery's goals is to jump right in and work as hard as she can to adjust to college ball. She wants to bring her court awareness up, increase her basketball IQ, and learn how to play alongside and against athletes with years of college experience.
"I plan on not playing like a freshman," Lowery said.
Lowery has spent most of her basketball career playing against older opponents, so it's not hard to imagine that she will quickly settle in at BC and play with poise above her years. She loves getting physical, and favors driving hard to the hoop and drawing contact. So far, Johnson has not seen her fazed by any opponent in practice. She brings the same exact intensity to practice, even when she's going up against older teammates or the men that come in to scrimmage against the Eagles.
"I haven't seen Syd scared of anybody yet," Johnson said.
For those who watched Lowery turn St. Luke's around, the similarities are clear. Just like St. Luke's when Lowery entered the program, BC has endured a rough couple of years. Lowery managed to start a new era for St. Luke's, changing the culture of the team and making it into a regional powerhouse. Now Lowery has joined an Eagles squad that desperately needs a kick-starter, and she might just be the person to turn everything around.
"She is going to do really great things at BC—for the school, the women's basketball program, and for herself," Ward said.


Does this Swift come with hydraulic clutch with slave cylinder? or it is manual cable clutch?
Petrol Swift's have mechanical clutch system.
The Fiat 1.3 SDE powered Diesel Swift's have hydraulic clutch systems.
Like to share an interesting finding. I applied Liqui Moly battery clamp grease on both terminals. One fine day, I found the -ve terminal clean without a trace. Was dumbstruck for a moment. Then found out, it was wiped clean by the sheer air force. So, don't bother applying white petroleum(as mentioned in the manual) or any grease to the -ve terminal. It will just get atomized in the engine bay.
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I've got a Swift Zxi AMT. At cold start the car seems to idle at around 1500 rpm for about 30 secs before it settles down to the normal 750-800 rpm range. Also the engine temp indicator stays lit up for sometime until the engine warms up a bit. Is this behavior experienced by other owners too?
Yes. I have noticed this in my swift too. Regarding temperature indicator, it's explained clearly in the review.


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Outcome of the meeting of Heads of State or Government with Turkey on 29 November 2015
Written by Ralf Drachenberg EU Heads of State or Government met on 29 November 2015 with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet…
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Written by Ralf Drachenberg
EU Heads of State or Government met on 29 November 2015 with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to discuss the ongoing migration crisis and the renewal of relations between the EU and Turkey. The main outcome of the meeting was a joint statement. Concerning migration, Turkey and the EU decided to 'activate' the Joint Action Plan[1]. The EU committed three billion euro for the refugee facility for Turkey. Turkey committed to implement readmission agreements and immediately increasing its cooperation with the EU on migrants who are not in need of international protection. Regarding the wider dimension of EU-Turkey relations, Leaders discussed counter-terrorism, energy, trade, and Turkey's accession process. The main agreements in this context were the acceleration of the visa liberalization dialogue and the opening of new chapters in the accession negotiations. A clear timetable has been set for both of these decisions.
European Council President Donald Tusk stated that this summit was convened in order to decide 'what the EU and Turkey must do together to cope with the migration crisis'; the main goal being to 'stem the flow of migrants to Europe'.[2]
1.1. Humanitarian assistance
Turkey expressed its intention to immediately adopt measures to improve the socio-economic situation. The EU agreed to 'provide immediate and continuous humanitarian assistance in Turkey' and to significantly increase its overall financial support by committing an initial three billion euro of additional resources. The agreement also clearly states that 'the need for and nature of this funding will be reviewed in the light of the developing situation'. European Parliament President Martin Schulz pointed out that 'the European Parliament has again strongly voiced its disappointment that member states time and again fail to follow-up on their promises and pledges; while the European institutions deliver every step of the way'. He also stressed that the intake of huge numbers of refugees has been unevenly shared between the Member States.
1.2. Reducing irregular migration to Europe
In return for the European Union's strengthening its support of refugees in Turkey and intensifying the EU-Turkey bilateral relationship, European Council President Donald Tusk expects 'to see an immediate and substantial reduction of irregular migrants arriving to Europe'. Achievement results in stemming the influx of irregular migrants is an essential aspect of the agreement between the EU and Turkey. In order to achieve this, the EU and Turkey will step up their cooperation in preventing migrants who are not in need of international protection, from travelling to Turkey and the EU. This is supposed to complement the correct application of the provisions in the 2013 EU-Turkey readmission agreement and swift return of migrants who are not in need of international protection to their countries of origin. Both sides also underlined their shared commitment to fight criminal smuggling networks.
In their statement, Leaders from the EU and Turkey also underlined the contribution made by both national and European resettlement schemes and programmes. Prior to the meeting of Heads of State or Government with Turkey, and following a German initiative, eight Member States (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Sweden), met with the European Commission to discuss this resettlement in the EU of refugees currently in Turkey. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker added that the European Commission has been tasked to prepare all the relevant work for this open and voluntary process by 15 December 2015. Member States should indicate if they wish to participate in this process before then. The Visegrad states (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) also met before the EU summit to reiterate their opposition to EU resettlement and relocation quotas. The proposal for the resettlement of refugees could possibly feature at the 17/18 December 2015 European Council.
Controlling the EU's external borders remains a priority. European Council President Donald Tusk recalled that this is vital to solving the migration crisis, and cannot be outsourced to a third country. European Parliament President Martin Schulz stressed that Member States must accept 'the management of our external borders as our shared responsibility.'
EU Heads of State or Government and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu also agreed to 'be more ambitious when it comes to the accession process, and to work together to achieve the goal of visa-free travel, while strengthening cooperation on counter-terrorism, trade, energy, and economic relations'.
2.1. Accession process
European Council President Donald Tusk reported that they have agreed 'to be more ambitious when it comes to the accession process'. Re-energising the Turkish accession process was, according to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, the key aspect of the agreement. Both sides welcomed the opening of chapter 17 (i.e. Economic and Monetary Policy) in the accession negotiations, which will officially begin at an Intergovernmental Conference convened for 14 December 2015. The European Commission also committed to completing the preparatory work for the opening of a number of other chapters, without prejudicing the positions of the Member States. European Council President Donald Tusk stressed that EU enlargement policy is not being revised, as the negotiating framework and the relevant conclusions continue to apply, including their merit-based nature and the respect for European values, such as the respect for human rights. Consequently, the agreement expects Turkey to assist the EU in 'realising the common objective of coming closer together, through reforms, the upholding of the highest standards of human rights and media freedom, and the implementation of agreed roadmaps and benchmarks.'
2.2. Visa liberalisation
Turkey made a commitment to accelerate the fulfilment of the Visa Roadmap benchmarks vis-à-vis all participating Member States. The European Commission is now expected to present two progress reports on Turkey's implementation of the visa liberalisation roadmap, one in March 2016 and one in the autumn of 2016. The aim is to complete the visa liberalisation process (i.e. lifting visa requirements for Turkish citizens in the Schengen area) by October 2016.
2.3. Counter-terrorism
Given recent events, the fight against terrorism featured strongly in the discussions. European Council President Donald Tusk stressed that 'Turkey is a key partner regarding counterterrorism' and the EU-Turkey statement reaffirmed that the fight against terrorism remains a priority for both countries. They agreed that regular discussions and cooperation on foreign and security policy should be enhanced, including on counter-terrorism. In this context, President Tusk also called for full support for the Vienna process.
2.4. Trade, energy, and economic relations
Heads of State or Government agreed to launch the High Level Economic Dialogue Mechanism and hold a second meeting of the High Level Energy Dialogue and Strategic Energy Cooperation. Leaders also took note of launching preparatory steps for upgrading the Customs Union.
New processes
In order to follow up on the various aspects of their agreement, the EU and Turkey decided in their agreement to have 'a structured and more frequent high-level dialogue'. This will create new processes or intensify already existing ones such as:
Regular Summits twice a year, in an appropriate format, to assess the development of Turkey-EU relations and discuss international issues;
Regular comprehensive political dialogue meetings at Ministerial/High Representative/ Commissioner Level in addition to regular Association Council meetings.
High level dialogues on key thematic issues.
Monitoring and Follow up
Turkey and the EU agreed to closely monitor all the elements of this agreement. European Council President Donald Tusk indicated that Coreper will be updated at least once a month on the implementation of the agreement.
14 December 2015: Intergovernmental Conference for opening chapter 17 of the accession negotiations.
15 December 2015: European Commission to prepare the relevant work for the resettlement scheme.
First quarter 2016: European Commission commitment to complete preparatory work for opening a number of chapters in the accession negotiations.
First quarter 2016: Launching a High Level Economic Dialogue Mechanism between Turkey and the EU.
First quarter 2016: Holding the second High Level Energy Dialogue and Strategic Energy Cooperation meeting.
Early March 2016: The European Commission will present the second progress report on the implementation by Turkey of the visa liberalisation roadmap.
June 2016: EU-Turkey readmission agreement will become fully applicable.
Autumn 2016: The European Commission will present the third progress report on the implementation by Turkey of the visa liberalisation roadmap.
October 2016: Lifting of visa requirements for Turkish citizens in the Schengen zone.
End of 2016: Launching formal negotiations for upgrading the Customs Union.
[1] This Joint action plan was agreed on 15 October 2015 ad referenda.
[2] For a discussion on the political considerations behind the meeting see Eurocomment.
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Things you do not know John Singleton
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irector John Singleton, famous for helming movies such as Boyz in the Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Shaft, suffered a mild stroke on Wednesday April 17, and his family put out statement on Saturday saying that he remains hospitalized in the ICU "under great medical care." While the 51-year-old recovers, many of his famous friends in Hollywood have sent shout outs for him to get better soon, including Snoop Dogg, Nia Long, and Omar Epps.
Singleton has been working in the industry for a long time as both a director and producer. He was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1992 for Boyz n the Hood, and most recently, he's the co-creator of FX's hit series Snowfall.
The USC film graduate who's earned himself a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame has only been married once, to actress Akosua Busia for one year. Singleton has four children, one with Hadar, 22, Cleopatra, 26, who appeared in his movie Baby Boy, Maasai, 25, and Justice, 26.
Here's what you need to know about John Singleton:
1. He's the First African American to Be Nominated for Best Director and The Youngest
Singleton will forever be known for creating the iconic film, Boyz n the Hood, and in 1991, it earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Not only was he the first African American to be nominated in this category, at age 24, he was also the youngest to receive such an honor. The film also earned himself a nomination for Best Screenplay.
Even more impressive, Boyz n the Hood was Singleton's first movie after graduating from USC's film school. The movie stars Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Basset, and Laurence Fishburne, and is loosely based on Singleton's experience growing up on the streets of Los Angeles.
2. He's Known for Casting Famous Rappers in His Films
Higher Learning! I just watched it again this morning after a long time. So many things in this film are still relevant today.
Singleton loved to get rappers acting on the big screen, and he's responsible for boosting the film careers of the late Tupac Shakur, Busta Rhymes and Ice Cube.
Our time will come.
While appearing on The Queen Latifah Show in 1999, Ice Cube, née O'Shea Jackson said Singleton brought him in for a screen test to see if he could act before casting him as Doughboy in his first film, Boyz n the Hood. Ice Cube also starred in Singleton's Higher Learning, and has since appeared in a long list of movies, including starring roles in all the Barbershop films, The Longshots, 21 Jump Street, Friday, and many more.
3. Singleton was Ordered to Produce A Short Film on Domestic Violence
In 1999, Singleton pleaded "no contest" to one count of battery against his then girlfriend and mother of his daughter, Cleopatra. It's alleged that after a dispute over child visiting rights, an altercation took place in which he struck his 28-year-old girlfriend in the face and body, choked, and shoved her during an argument.
The court order the famed director to produce a 15 to 30 minute film on domestic violence. At the time, Singleton was 31-years-old, and he was fined $300, sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to attend domestic violence counseling.
4. He Once Dated Model Tyra Banks
Singleton dated model, actress, and businesswoman Tyra Banks, from 1993 to 1996. He gave Banks her first film role after casting her in Higher Learning. She had just come off guest-starring on Will Smith's TV series Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and on her first day of filming her first theatrical film, she had the to shoot a sex scene with actor Omar Epps. "I was 19," Banks said. "It was weird."
5. He's An Emmy Nominated Director of TV
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Singleton's talents are not just used on the big screen, he's directed episodes for a number of TV series, including BET's Rebels, and FX series, Snowfall, which he co-created with Erica Amadio and Dave Andron. The Oscar nominated director has also worked on the the series Showtime's Billions, ESPN's 30 for 30 on Marion Jones, American Crime Story: The People V O.J. Simpson, which earned him an Emmy nomination in 2016, and Empire.
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood, Burn! (1997)
How bad is it? It's a failed comedy of "Ishtar" dimensions.
Should you see it? Only if you work in Hollywood.
This film had a budget 1000 times that of most films on this blog and it has the technical quality of a major motion picture. Unfortunately, it's all inside-the-industry humor and it misfires. The main plot line is good: a director actually named "Alan Smithee" makes a film, he feels the studio ruined it and wants his name taken off of it, but his name is the one they put on films directors disown, so he has to physically stop the film's release. Eric Idle was a poor choice for the director role and the multitude of cameos by major stars don't really add anything. The jokes are there; the more you know about making films, the more you'll get it, but the timing isn't right and most of it falls flat. The most interesting thing about the film (to me) is that the director, Arthur Hiller, disowned the film and had his name removed, making it an actual film by Alan Smithee - this sounds like a calculated stunt, but Hiller appears to really hate this film!
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Americathon (1979)
Asylum of Satan (1972)
Ator: The Fighting Eagle (1982)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood, Burn! (1997)...
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The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2010)
Amazon Jail (1982)
Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986)
Atlas Shrugged, Part 3: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
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How to Renovate and Seismically Improve a Major Medical Facility
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs work done on its facilities, it turns to its own Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), responsible for the planning, design, and construction of all major VA-related projects. The office works on high-quality buildings, additions, large-scale renovations, and structural enhancements, and it manages facility sustainability, seismic correction, physical security, and historical preservation of VA facilities. It has executed 36 major construction projects, valued at over $4.7 billion, and it also manages 22 major projects for the National Cemetery Administration. CFM also supports the VA with services including provision of national design-construction standards and criteria, land acquisition, leasing and real-property management, master planning, technical consults, and support of infrastructure issues with state homes and homeless grants. Here, the organization details the steps involved in the multiphase renovation and construction of the VA's Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The VA's Medical Center in San Juan, PR, includes an interior day room for patients recovering from spinal-cord injuries. The room is in the medical center's new bed tower, one of several buildings CFM has designed for a total renovation of the complex.
By	Frederick Jerant
1. Construct a new bed tower
The VA's Medical Center in San Juan, PR, was the first facility of its kind on the island. But after nearly 45 years of service, it was deemed incapable of withstanding a significant seismic event, so CFM set about designing and constructing a number of improvements, the first of which was a new bed tower.
This phase of the project entailed clearing, repositioning, and laterally bracing major water and sewer systems and main power lines. CFM also installed the building's foundation piles. Steel-reinforced 12- to 16-inch-thick concrete panels were then used to construct a new 230,000-square-foot structure to hold 314 new beds (including 20 for spinal-cord injury patients), an intensive care unit, an acute mental-health ward, and a new community-living center. Inside the structure, CFM designed and installed broadly varied interior layouts for patient, laboratory, and other uses.
"One of our biggest challenges was strategically placing the construction equipment," resident engineer Walter Winchester says. "We were surrounded by other buildings and heavy traffic, so we had little room to maneuver."
2. Design a new administration building
After the design of a new 143,000-square-foot building—intended to consolidate the facility's 1,400 employees—was completed, construction began and is still ongoing. When this phase of the overall project is complete, it will have entailed the setting of foundation piles; construction of a five-story building and a two-level basement; placement of air-handling equipment and the main electrical-switch gears in a penthouse structure, with other utilities located in the basement; and construction of a separate two-level shelled space for future canteen expansion, medical records, and retail-store applications.
"We discovered that the hospital's main power duct cut through the construction site," senior resident engineer Jaime R. Quinones, PhD, says. "So we worked weekends and nights to work around it without service interruptions. It could have been a show-stopper." Based on its design standards, the building is expected to be the island's first LEED Silver-certified structure.
3. Build an outpatient addition
This phase included construction of a 125,000-square-foot addition to the existing outpatient facility (using micro-pile foundations, structural-steel framing, lightweight concrete-composite floors, and composite precast wall panels). The new second floor includes expanded treatment facilities for dental work, audiology, speech pathology, hemodialysis, orthopedics, women's health, infectious disease, and diabetes.
In addition, dedicated air-conditioning units serving the newly constructed areas and the original building were installed on the roof, as was a 40,000-square-foot hurricane-proof penthouse to enclose electrical and mechanical hardware. Also, 10,000 square feet of the first floor was renovated with no service disruptions.
A new lobby now connects the main building and the outpatient addition and will eventually connect the administration building currently under construction. Over a dozen different medical specialties and services were consulted on a daily basis to minimize the impact of the new lobby's traffic patterns on patient service and transport.
"During this complex process, we used a sophisticated construction-phasing sequence to permit tie-ins of the new air-conditioning units with the mechanical and electrical systems," Winchester says.
Over the years, design standards had become more stringent, and the outpatient facility had been designated mission-critical—meaning it had to comply with current physical-security design standards, including n+1 redundancy, 100 percent standby power capacity, water cisterns, and more. This building is also expected to be certified as LEED Silver.
4. Include a parking garage
Still in the solicitation-and-award stage as of November 2011, a new seven-level, 1,500-car parking garage will provide more convenient parking for staff and visitors. The reinforced seismic-concrete structure will include a 12-foot-wide pedestrian bridge from the garage to the hospital as well as numerous green elements, including photovoltaic arrays, vegetated walls, and more.
5. Dismantle the original bed tower
This part of the overall project is also still pending. The current building has 10 floors: a basement level, eight above-ground floors, and a penthouse structure. The top seven floors will be taken down, and the penthouse will be placed atop the third floor.
CFM project executive William Picking Jr. and his team look forward to its completed renovation in the future, a final cherry atop a large-scale endeavor that ultimately will end up having spanned a decade. "It has been an honor and privilege," he says, "to address the challenges inherent in this mission-critical multiphase megaproject." ABQ


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Terry is chopping logs outside. Stephen comes out and snaps at him that he's trying to make a big man of himself, is he - claiming he made love to Patricia? Terry starts to try and explain that that's not right, but Stephen interrupts and says the men seem to think that's what happened - where would they get a story like that? Terry replies that he might have said something that got mixed-up in the telling. Stephen snaps at him that he's been boasting at Patricia's expense. He adds that he wants the men told the truth by tomorrow morning. Terry agrees that he doesn't want them thinking the wrong thing about her. Stephen says, "Tomorrow morning - alright?" He walks off. Terry looks at Fiona - who has just rocked up - as he does so.
Back at Woombai, Fiona snaps at Terry that she gave him more credit than to get involved with Patricia; she's trouble - he knows that. Terry retorts that he's not a five-year-old kid. Fiona continues that she's trying to say that Patricia has the unique talent of making trouble for anyone who gets involved with her. Terry says it was his fault. Fiona tells him that Patricia only saw it as a way to get at her; she knows what she's like. Terry insists that he can make up his own mind about people. Fiona tells him that Patricia has a reputation - she doesn't want him doing anything silly. Terry says he's just going to apologise to her. He adds that he doesn't want Fiona saying anything to her - he's done enough things to upset Patricia, and he doesn't want her interfering. He goes. Fiona stands there, looking upset.
Amanda wanders into the lounge room at Toorak, and noticing Wayne sitting around in his pyjamas, she comments that he's still not dressed. Wayne asks why should he be. Amanda replies that he's making the place look like a hospital ward. Wayne points out that she's been lying around all day herself. Amanda snaps that she hasn't been feeling well. Andy comes in at that moment and announces that he won't be in for dinner as he's going to the Palmers'. Amanda tells him to have a good time, and he goes. She then turns back to Wayne and tells him that she's sorry she's been so bad-tempered - she really hasn't been feeling too good lately; she hasn't said anything because he's feeling so down himself. Wayne suggests to her that she see a doctor, and Amanda says she'll try and make an appointment for tonight. Wayne tells her that she should have gone when she first felt off. Amanda says she knows. She then asks him how he's feeling. Wayne replies that she's right - he should try and make an effort. He continues that there's a meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon - he'll try and drag himself along. Amanda warns him to be careful, and she asks him if he's really well enough. Wayne says he'll get a cab to the office and back again - what can happen? Amanda tells him that she doesn't like him getting blackouts; anything could happen. Wayne points out that the cab driver would make sure he gets home. He adds that nothing has happened since the first time; it's probably just one of those things - maybe he was just tired. He tells Amanda that he's going to make an effort to get his act together; tomorrow will be a good start.
Andy arrives at the Palmers', and Beryl tells him that it's good to see him. Andy thanks her for the invite; he then says hello to Lynn. Beryl says she has things to do in the kitchen. Lynn quickly offers to give her a hand, but Beryl tells her to stay and talk to Andy. She leaves them. Andy asks Lynn how she's been. Lynn smiles and says that's a silly question, as it's only a few hours since they've seen each other. Changing the conversation, Andy says he wonders what's on TV tonight. He picks up the guide from the coffee table, and then points to the name of a movie and says it looks interesting. Lynn looks, and points to it as well. As she does so, Andy runs his index finger over hers. Lynn looks at him and quickly pulls her hand away. Andy comments that it was a nice day. Lynn just says, "Yes, it was..." Andy continues that the weather probably won't be as good as that over in England. Lynn just says, "No..." Andy then remarks that it's a pity you can't have things the way you want them. Lynn quietly says, "Yes, it is..." The tension is broken by Beryl calling out to Andy to ask if there's anything he won't eat. Andy calls back that he'll eat anything! He looks at Lynn.
Amanda is standing by the desk in the lounge room at Toorak, talking on the 'phone. She then hangs up and starts writing something. Wayne comes in and she tells him that she couldn't see the doctor tonight, so she made an appointment for the morning. The 'phone suddenly starts ringing, and Amanda answers it. A woman comes on and asks for Wayne Hamilton. Amanda turns to Wayne and tells him that it's for him, adding that it's someone who doesn't know about his change of name. Wayne takes the 'phone and says hello. The woman says, "Hi, it's Jacki - Jacki Ingleton!" Wayne, looking surprised, asks her how she is. Jacki replies that she's about the same as the other day. She thanks him for the coffee, and Wayne, looking bemused, says it was his pleasure. Jacki tells him that next time it's his turn to pay! Wayne distantly says "Yeah..." and then asks why that is. Jacki reminds him that she paid the other day. She adds that he's lucky she had some money on her; he might have been washing dishes for the owner, otherwise! She continues that she hopes he hasn't become an old meanie since she went overseas. Wayne assures her that he hasn't - not on her life; he's still the same old Wayne. He turns to Amanda and tells her that it's an old girlfriend - the one from the coffee shop; he might be able to find out what happened at last.
A short time later, Amanda asks Wayne why he didn't ask Jacki Ingleton more questions. Wayne retorts that he can't have her thinking he's round the twist; he'll find out more tomorrow. Amanda says she'll cancel the doctor's appointment so that she can be there too, but Wayne tells her not to. He adds that she'll be back in time, anyway. Amanda says she guesses so. She asks who Jacki Ingleton is, and Wayne replies that he told her: she's an old girlfriend; her father was involved in business dealings with Fiona a couple of years back. Amanda asks if it was serious. Wayne says he supposes it could have developed, but he fell for Jill. He adds that it will be interesting to see her - he's dying to find out what happened in those three hours the other day.
At the Palmers', Beryl is sitting in an armchair in the lounge room while Lynn and Andy sit next to each other on the couch. Beryl remarks to Lynn that she'll be able to see all the films before them, now. Lynn, though, says she doesn't think that happens anymore - they release movies all over the world at the same time now. Beryl says she thought she read that London got them first. There's silence for several seconds, and Beryl eventually comments that Lynn and Andy seem to have lost their tongues. Lynn says she's feeling really tired, and Andy quickly says he is, too - he might make it an early night. Beryl agrees that he should go home and get some rest. She then reminds Lynn to ring Kevin. Andy thanks Beryl for the invite. Beryl heads out to the kitchen. Lynn says to Andy that she'll ring Kevin as soon as he's left. They go to the front door, where Andy says he shouldn't have come - it was a stupid thing to do; there's no way they can just be friends. Lynn sadly says, "No..." Andy goes to kiss her, but Lynn stops him, saying she'd better ring Kevin. Andy starts stroking her hair as he says he's going back to Sydney tomorrow, so this is goodbye. Lynn tells him not to say that; she pushes his hand away. She says again that she's got to ring Kevin. Andy leaves, and she shuts the door. She then leans against it, looking worried.
The next morning, at Toorak, Andy and Amanda are walking downstairs, and Andy asks Amanda if she's sure she'll be alright. Amanda assures him that she'll be OK. She adds that she's going to see the doctor - it's probably just 'flu or something. Andy then asks about Wayne - will she be alright with him? Amanda replies that of course she will - she's sure meeting that girl will help him; she wants to see him happy again. Andy remarks to Amanda that she's really fallen for Wayne, and Amanda agrees, "Very much." She then adds that she supposes Andy can't understand how she can fall in love with someone she shouldn't. Andy, looking wistful, says, "No... not at all." He goes to leave, but as he does so, Wayne joins them and tells Andy that he's glad he caught him. He continues that, about his mum... the article... Andy tells him to forget it. Wayne says he knows he's harping, but he really is sorry. Andy says he knows. Changing the subject, Wayne asks him if can drop something into the Palmers' on his way to the airport - Beryl will need it for the meeting this afternoon. Andy, looking worried about seeing Lynn again, says he doesn't want to miss his 'plane. Amanda tells him that he's got stacks of time - it doesn't take two hours to get there. Andy nervously says, "No..." He goes.
Jacki Ingleton is sitting on the settee in the lounge room at Toorak, and Wayne hands her a drink. As he does so, he tells her that it was useless trying to fool her when he knew darn well that he had no hope of remembering. Jacki assures him that nothing happened - he was acting perfectly normally; he was a bit depressed, but that's all. Wayne asks where they met - the coffee shop? Jacki tells him no - they met in Toorak village; she suggested coffee and he was happy to go along with it; they chatted about old times. She adds that she hasn't been back to Sydney yet - he's the only one to clap eyes on her! Wayne remarks, "Lucky old Wayne!" Out in the hallway, Amanda stands and listens at the doorway at the flirtatious nature of the conversation. She then walks purposefully into the room. Wayne stands up and introduces the two women to each other. He asks Amanda how it went at the doctor's. Amanda replies that it's just a virus. Jacki remarks that she thought it was only her and Wayne for lunch. Wayne smiles at her. Amanda says to Jacki that she believes she's been overseas. Jacki says that's right. Amanda tells her, "What a pity - you missed our wedding."
Beryl arrives home to find Lynn mopping the kitchen floor. She tells her that she doesn't have to do that, but Lynn insists that she has to do something. Beryl asks where Davey is, and Lynn replies that he's next door with her mum. Beryl comments that, the amount of time she's spent with him, he may as well have gone already! She then says she thought she saw Andy on her way back on the tram. Lynn quickly says she forgot: he dropped a file in for her. Beryl remarks that, the funny thing was, he was walking. Lynn tells her that he let his cab go and stopped for a chat. Beryl remarks that he really is a very nice young man. Lynn looks worried.
At Toorak, Jacki says she's sorry to eat and dash, but she's got a game of tennis organised for this afternoon. Wayne says he's got a business meeting anyway. Amanda curtly tells Jacki that it was nice to meet her. Jacki retorts, "You too, Amanda." She goes, and Amanda shuts the door behind her. As soon as she does, Wayne angrily asks her what the hell the idea was of dropping in that they're married, like that, then fawning all over him. Amanda points out that she is his wife - she doesn't see she did anything wrong. Wayne snaps at her to grow up. He adds that it was her idea that they shouldn't interfere with each other's lives, and he tells her not to do anything like that again.
Somtime later, the 'phone rings at Toorak. Amanda answers it, but then there's a knock at the door, and Amanda asks the caller to hold on. She answers the door to find Beryl standing there. She asks Amanda how she is, and she replies that she's fine. Beryl then asks why Wayne didn't arrive at the meeting. Suddenly looking worried, Amanda says he was heading there. Beryl suddenly notices that the 'phone is off the hook, and Amanda goes and picks it up again. A man comes on and says, "Mrs. Morrell?" Amanda says it is. The caller tells her that he's from the bank - he wants to let her husband know that he left his chequebook on the counter when he was in before. Looking surprised, Amanda asks how long ago he was in. The man says it was about an hour ago. Amanda asks what he was doing there, and the man replies that he made a withdrawal - quite a large one. Amanda thanks him and hangs up. She turns to Beryl and tells her that that was the bank - Wayne has been in and drawn money out. She adds that somethng must have happened; she's going to call the police - it sounds like another blackout. Beryl points out that he turned up alright last time. Seeing Amanda looking shaky, she asks her if she's alright. Amanda says it's just a virus. Beryl says she should have thought. She offers to stay, but Amanda says she'll be alright. Beryl tells her to let her know if anything happens. She goes, leaving Amanda looking worried.
Patricia walks into the reception area at the riding school, followed by Fiona, who says, "Off are you?" Patricia snaps that she thought that would be obvious. Fiona snaps back that it'll teach her to play her little games. Patricia storms outside.
Wayne opens the door and walks into Toorak. Amanda immediately asks him where he's been, as she's been worried about him. Wayne assures her that she needn't have been. Amanda asks him why he didn't go to the meeting, and then if he knows that he went to the bank and cashed a cheque. Wayne tells her to calm down - he didn't have another blackout. He continues that he didn't go to the meeting because he didn't feel up to it; he went for a drive instead; he felt rotten about the way he treated her and was on the way home to tell her when he had a better idea. He takes a small case out of his jacket pocket and hands it to her, explaining as he does so that this is where the money went. Amanda opens it; inside is a gold bracelet. Wayne tells her that it's to say 'thanks' for being such a good friend. When Amanda doesn't say anything, he asks her if she doesn't like it. Amanda quickly says that of course she does - it's just that she was thinking that this is probably a good time to tell him something. She continues that, when she went to see the doctor this morning, it wasn't a virus - "I'm two months pregnant." Wayne, looking astonished, says, "Two months?" Amanda tells him, "It's yours, Wayne."


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Accessibility Inspector
April 24, 2012 at 11:46 PM by Dr. Drang
The hardest thing about GUI scripting in AppleScript is figuring out how to address the various controls on the screen. The class names of standard buttons, text fields, and menus are fairly easy to remember, but the more exotic controls can be tricky. Apple provides a little application that can be a big help with those less common GUI elements.
It's called Accessibility Inspector, and it used to come with the Developer Tools. You could find it in the Accessibility Tools folder buried deep within the Developer folder.
Depending on the version of Xcode you have, it may still be there. If you've upgraded to Xcode 4.3, it might be in the same place, but with the top-level folder renamed to Developer-old. If you don't have it at all, you can get it from this developer downloads page in the Accessibility Tools section.
The Accessibility Inspector isn't a particularly nice-looking app. It has a single window that lists the attributes and hierarchy of whatever GUI element is under your mouse. I used it yesterday as I was writing my blurring scripts. For example, Acorn's Fill… command brings up a window with a couple of popup menus. I tried referring to them in my script as popup menu and popup button, but AppleScript didn't understand either of those names. With Accessibility Inspector, I quickly learned—from the entry for AXRoleDescription—that the correct term is pop up button—three words, not two.
(You can see a bigger version by clicking on the image to go to its Flickr page.)
I also learned that the Blending pop up button didn't have a name. See the "Missing value for AXTitle" down near the bottom? That meant I'd have to access the pop up button by number rather than name. Since it was the second of two such controls in the window, I tried
tell window "Fill"
tell pop up button 2
click menu item "Lighten" of menu 1
click button "OK"
and it worked. If it hadn't—and I don't believe there's any requirement for controls to be numbered from top to bottom—I would have tried 1 instead of 2.
Note also from this snippet of code that the window, the menu item, and the button all did have names and could be addressed as such.
I learned about the Accessibility Inspector from Matt Neuburg's AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. It's a handy thing to know.


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Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936 (Paperback)
Donald Mitchell
Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the GPO film unit, in a collaboration which flowered and spilled over into the theatre, and then radio - a new medium that the liveliest creative minds of the time were exploring and exploiting.
Britten and Auden also joined forces in works destined for the recital room and concert hall, among them Our Hunting Fathers, the political symbolism of which Donald Mitchell examines in depth, and On the Island, settings of early Auden that comprised Britten's first important set of songs to English texts. Much use is made of Britten's private diaries, which he kept on a daily basis, and a revealing portrait emerges of the two men's relationship, of their work together in many different fields, and of the reflection within that work of political ideas current at the time.
DONALD MITCHELL was Britten's close friend and publisher from 1964 until the end of the composer's life, and his authorised biographer. The T S Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered in 1979
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Pension Plans and Bankruptcy: The Supreme Court Will Decide
by Yosie Saint-Cyr
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The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the Indalex Limited case, which will determine if underfunded pension plans should be treated as a priority when it comes time to liquidate the assets of a bankrupt company.
Although the case deals first and foremost with duties and priorities under the Ontario Pension Benefits Act (PBA) and corporate insolvency under the Companies' Creditors Arrangements Act (CCAA), the Supreme Court's pending decision has ramifications for organizations, creditors (lenders) and pension plans across Canada.
This appeal stems from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal back in April 7, 2011, on a priority dispute over the proceeds from the sale of the assets of Indalex Limited. The asset sale was approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice under the CCAA. However, the United Steelworkers (USW), which represented Indalex's unionized workforce and certain pension beneficiaries, and a group of former executives receiving pension benefits, argued that Indalex's obligation to fund its pension wind-up deficiencies ranked higher in priority than Indalex's obligation to repay its debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. In holding for the USW and the former executives, and departing from earlier case law, the Ontario Court of Appeal gave priority for the entire wind-up deficiency of two pension plans over the secured DIP lender's security.
The decision provides that in some cases pension funding obligations can rank ahead of DIP security and security on working capital assets of an organization, and that organizations have a duty to plan members to keep them informed of key steps in financial restructurings, to serve them with formal notice of proceedings in CCAA cases, and to defend the priority provided by the PBA to pension claims over other creditor claims. The decision also suggests that organizations should relinquish administration of a plan when insolvency is clearly in sight.
Madam Justice Gillese, writing on behalf of the Court of Appeal, held that:
The entire amount that an employer is required to contribute to fund a pension plan wind up deficiency under the Ontario Pension Benefits Act is subject to the deemed trust provisions of the PBA and, in the circumstances, the amount subject to the deemed trust should be paid in priority to outstanding secured creditor claims.
The Appeal Court decision notes, however, that there may be some situations where creditors must take precedence over the pension, but this should be decided case by case.
Since the Court of Appeal decision, many insolvency, pension and financial services professionals are debating the result. It has created considerable uncertainty over the priority status afforded to pension plan wind-up deficits, particularly in insolvency proceedings involving the plan sponsor, and the effects on availability of credit for all organizations that provide defined benefit pension plans for their employees. Lenders want certainty that their interest in the company's property takes priority over other entities, including the pension funds.
Thus, the appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada for clarification.
Hopefully, the Supreme Court of Canada will clarify the scope and application of the PBA deemed trust and provide guidance to organizations and lenders in circumstances similar to Indalex. It is expected that the Supreme Court of Canada will hear the case sometime in late 2012.
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Speaking personally and as a matter of policy rather than law, I was pleased to see the court give the priority to the pension interests rather than the purely institutional financial interests of the secured creditors. There must be some meaning to the 'hold in trust' rules about pension funds. I don't object to a creditor in possession taking out its enforcement costs, but after that, the workers need more protection than the banks. (I see that the pension creditors included executives as well as lower-ranked workers. Even they probably need protection more than the banks, but if covering them is the price for covering the other workers, so be it.)


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