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THERE ARE two significant changes this year that may delay the time when your tax return can be processed and assessed.
If you are anticipating a tax refund, then be prepared for the refund to hit your bank account later than you may be expecting.
The Impact of Single Touch Payroll Reporting (STP)
Commencing July 1 , 2018 , employers with 20 or more employees have been required to report their payroll details to the ATO on a real time basis each pay period.
Employers with less than 20 employees may have voluntarily elected to adopt this real time reporting system.
Employers will have until July 31, 2019 to finalise their STP data for the 2018/19 financial year, with that date to change back to July 14 each year subsequently.
So how might this change affect you?
If your employer has been reporting under STP you will no longer receive a Payment Summary (also previously known as a Group Certificate) but instead will be replaced by an Income Statement that you will need to access through your myGov account or your tax agent.
For the current year only, you may not be able to access this information until as late as July 31. Furthermore, consistent with prior
years, other pre-fill data including dividends, interest, share disposals, and private health insurance cover details are progressively uploaded on to the ATO systems and may take time to be finalised.
If you receive income from trust funds this information is often not available until late September.
From July 1, 2019 STP reporting will be extended to include all businesses with employees other than family businesses comprising only family members as employees, who may report on a quarterly basis together with the lodgment of their quarterly BAS.
Furthermore, if proposed measures announced in the 2019/20 Federal Budget become law, from July 1, 2020, STP data collected by the ATO will be expanded and shared with other Commonwealth agencies to ensure individuals receiving Government benefits are paid their
correct entitlements.
The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LAMITO)
Taxpayers with taxable incomes below $37,000 have for many years been entitled to a non-refundable Low Income Tax Offset (LITO) of $445 phasing out to zero at a taxable income of $66,666.
In the April 2019 Federal Budget t h e C o a l i t i o n G o v e r n m e n t foreshadowed the introduction of a new additional tax offset (LAMITO) to provide additional temporary nonrefundable tax relief to low income earners and also encompassing a new level of temporary tax relief to middle income earners to be available for the 2019 to 2022 income years.
At the time of writing this column, this foreshadowed legislation is yet to go before Parliament, but current undertakings from the Opposition suggest that the legislation will be supported.
N e v e r t h e l e s s , t h e b u d g e t proposal could be subject to some amendments in order to pass through both Houses of Parliament.
Should the legislation as outlined in the budget pass unchanged then individuals with a taxable income under $37,000 can expect an additional non-refundable LAMITO of $255 making a total LITO and LAMITO of $700.
The amount of the L AMITO increases for taxable incomes above $37,000 to reach a maximum of $1080 at a taxable income of $90,000, thereafter reducing at the rate of 3% of the excess taxable income over $90,000.
If your tax return is processed and assessed prior to the proposed LAMITO legislation passing through both Houses and receiving Royal Assent, your tax return would subsequently need to be amended by the ATO to accommodate the impact of the LAMITO on your 2019 assessment.
This therefore is the second reason you may choose to delay lodging your tax return until after July 31 or later until the LAMITO tax offset becomes law and ATO systems are updated to accommodate any changes from the proposed legislation as outlined in the Budget.
Please remember both of the tax offsets explained above are nonrefundable.
This means that you must have incurred a tax liability and either paid PAYG tax instalments through the year or your employer has withheld PAYG tax from your wage or salary during the year.
If not, then the tax offsets will be an offset against your unpaid tax liability reducing the tax payable on your tax assessment.
If your employer has withheld tax sufficient to cover your tax liability, the tax offsets will reduce (offset) your tax liability thus producing a tax refund.
If you use a tax agent to prepare your tax return, the above factors may explain why your tax agent chooses to delay lodging your tax return this year until all relevant pre-fill tax information is available to download into your tax return and thus avoid the added expense of having to lodge an amended return.
The content of this article is not intended to be used as professional advice and should not be used as such.
B r i a n S p u r r e l l F C PA , C TA ,
Registered Tax Agent, is Director o f Personalised Taxation & Accounting Services Pty Ltd.
PO Box 143 Warrandyte 3113.
bspurrell@ptasaccountants.com.au,
www.ptasaccountants.com.au
The season of insects, moths and fungi
PERHAPS MY favourite cyclic event of the naturalist calendar was the mass emergence of the rain moths.
It was usually an April phenomenon after the late summer storms had swept across the city and began to break the drought of summer.
Mists returned to the river valley and the steadier rainfall of March and April would refresh the earth and kick start the ecological processes that had laid dormant over Summer.
It was then that the rain moths would appear at an outside light that had been left on.
Hundreds of them, in a display of dazzling diversity.
There were heliotrope moths, twin emeralds, Clara's satin moths, geometrids, white satin moths, granny's cloak moths and many, many species, big and small that I could not put a name to.
The mass emergence of the rain moths provided a guaranteed food supply, a rich source of protein for the local birds essential for their late winter breeding cycle.
This critical food resource would give them an advantage over the spring/ summer migrating birds coming to the Yarra Valley.
Sometimes there would be the huge wattle goat moths that were as big as small birds.
Moths, whose caterpillars would chew their way through black wattle trees before entering the ground to emerge when the rains softened the earth enough for them to dig their way out.
Sometimes there would be great numbers of Bogong moths that would be blown off course on their trek to the mountains of the Great Divide where they historically were gathered and eaten by the local First Nations Peoples.
However, I haven't experienced the rain moth emergence now since 2010, the year the Millennium drought broke.
Before that I recorded it in 1997, the year the Millennium Drought begun.
Twice in over 22 years instead of something that was an every-year event.
The drop in rainfall across the Yarra Valley has curtailed these critical ecological events.
It is not just moth numbers that are reduced, it is across the whole spectrum of insects.
The fall in insect presence gets mentioned in Field Naturalist Club newsletters.
People notice their car windows don't get covered in insects on long summer drives.
Entomologists worry about it.
The fall in average rainfall that we are experiencing is also affecting the prevalence of fungi which — like the rain moths — would generally begin showing on mass around April in the old rainfall patterns.
Fungi are important to all life on many levels.
The majority of plants require a mycorrhizal relationship with fungi by which the fungi facilitate plant growth by breaking down nutrients in the soil and making them available to plants.
They influence the well-being of human populations on a large scale because they are part of the nutrient cycle in ecosystems.
They naturally produce antibiotics to kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria, limiting their competition in the natural environment.
Important antibiotics for human use can also be isolated from fungi.
When we talk of biodiversity, the numbers of species are dominated by insects and fungi.
Of all the known species in the world, vertebrates have 2 per cent of the species, plants 11 per cent, insects and invertebrates 43 per cent and fungi 44 per cent of the total species.
Species diversity is one of the greatest stabilizing influences on our planet.
A diverse ecosystem is a stable ecosystem.
The protection of biodiversity is one of the three core objectives of the Australian National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Future.
Conserving biodiversity is vital for maintaining our quality of life and our standard of living in the long term.
"So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity would not last more than a few months.
Most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would crash to extinction about the same time.
Next would go the bulk of flowering plants and with them the physical structure of most forests and other terrestrial habitats of the world. The land surface would literally rot."
—Wilson-The Diversity of Life
Let's Celebrate Simon Wonga Day on May 24
I HAVE WRITTEN before about how Simon Wonga developed a plan for the survival of the Kulin people in the 1840s.
This was for them to learn agricultural and stock mustering skills in order to establish an economic base in the new world they faced.
Wonga organised the last ever Kulin Nation corroboree in 1852 and gave his people the opportunity to play all their traditional games and thereby say goodbye to tribal life.
I have also told the story of how Wonga Park got its name, in tribute to Wonga's stock mustering skills and charismatic leadership.
He was a great man, and to me Simon Wonga stands alongside Sir John Monash as the two greatest Victorians in our State's history.
Perhaps you might agree with me when you hear a brief account of how he secured a government grant of land to establish Coranderrk Station at Healesville in 1863.
It was an achievement against all odds that showed his strategic brilliance.
Wonga's father Billibelleri was Headman of the five Kulin tribes from 1836 until he died in 1846.
Wonga was then 25 and had been groomed for leadership.
Not because he was Billibilleri's son, but because his innate ability, character and knowledge made him the standout choice.
However, Wonga did not feel he was ready, so in 1846 the leadership passed to Billibelleri's younger brother Berberry.
When the government approved the establishment of an Aboriginal Reserve at Pound Bend in October 1850, Wonga decided he was ready for leadership.
Berberry willingly stepped aside and Wonga then began activating his plan.
Unfortunately, gold was discovered at Warrandyte in 1851 which compromised the viability of the Reserve at Pound Bend.
A new Reserve was consequently declared at Woori-Yallock, only for gold to be found there as well.
However, the meagre gold at Warrandyte and Woori Yallock was soon vastly overshadowed by the discoveries at Ballarat and Bendigo.
Curiously, the Ballarat and Bendigo gold discoveries turned out to be an advantage to Wonga's plans.
With workers deserting their employment and flooding to the goldfields, it inadvertently drove up Aboriginal work opportunities and wages.
Wonga was therefore able to get contract work for Aboriginal people on farms up the Plenty and Yarra valleys.
Wonga in fact won the contract to build the first public house in Warrandyte.
It is a pity his name is not commemorated in some way at the present day Warrandyte pub.
With the disbandment of the Native Police in 1853, William Barak joined Wonga at Wonga Park, where they met the Reverend John Green who had arrived in 1858.
The three of them were to develop a most fruitful relationship over the next sixteen years.
In February 1859, Wonga received information that a settler in the Upper Goulburn had abandoned his run.
Wonga knew it was prime land, so he led a deputation of Elders to see the Aboriginal Protector William Thomas.
The deputation also included my great-great-grandfather's friend, Murrum-Murrum.
Thomas got approval for them to claim the land, so Wonga, Barak and others left Melbourne, to establish Acheron Station in March 1859.
They were later joined by Reverend Green and others from Woori Yallock.
Over the next two years, Wonga and the Kulin people made a great success of the venture, but they were ultimately cheated out of the land by neighbouring squatters Hugh Glass and Peter Snodgrass.
Glass, a land speculator, was the richest man in Victoria and Snodgrass a Parliamentarian, so draw your own conclusions.
The Kulin were forced onto bleak and inhospitable land near Cathedral Mountain, where people started dying like flies.
So in early 1863, Wonga, Barak and Green led the remnants of their group across the Great Dividing Range, via the Black's Spur Songline, to present day Healesville where they claimed land there.
Wonga had learned his lessons well.
The demise of Pound Bend, Woori-Yallock and Acheron had shown him he would get nothing from the parliamentarians.
So he went over their heads. On May 24, 1863, which was Queen Victoria's birthday, Wonga led an Aboriginal deputation to Government House.
They presented gifts of woven baskets, artefacts and possum skin rugs to Sir Henry Barkley for 'The Good Queen Mother' and the just married Prince of Wales.
Then Wonga presented a petition for the land at Coranderrk.
Immediately afterward Sir Henry summoned the government leader and told him in no uncertain terms that if the grant of land was not made immediately, 'the Queen would not be happy'.
The result was that a month later the land grant at Coranderrk was duly approved.
Over the next decade Coranderrk became socially and economically the most successful Mission in Australian history, until Wonga died in 1874.
So to me, May 24 is not Empire Day, it is Wonga Day and it should be fittingly celebrated as the start of Reconciliation Week each year.
On being the last one left at the movies
Films take us places we have never been, even if it's for just a few moments, offering us a window into the wider world, opening our eyes to new wonders.
They entertain us, they offer hope and inspire us, they challenge us and broaden our perspective.
Films take us inside the lives of people different from ourselves and take us to places different from our everyday surroundings.
Why, only recently, I was flying over rooftops in London, transported back to 1935.
I had been dropped into a world of beautiful costumes, fabulous music and dance and some clever lines delivered by handsome actors at just the right moment.
Along with the beautiful sets and a chance to revisit a classic, watching Dick Van Dyke dance up a storm again at aged 91 was sheer brilliance.
Going to the cinema, sitting in a darkened theatre, we are left alone to travel to those places, until often, all too soon, it's over.
The transition is often abrupt as lights come on and people start to move.
They murmur and stretch and turn on their phones, they scratch around in bags looking for keys and stand up, dusting the popcorn from their laps and loudly share their opinions.
Meanwhile, the music invites us to linger on the edge of where we have been, and the long list of names and acknowledgments continues down the screen.
First, of course, are the names of the stars of the show, appearing in a fancy font, one by one, as does the director's name and a few other special people.
Then the long list of names with job titles rolls while the music continues and the theatre empties.
But I stay seated, often to the frustration of my other half.
I am not quite ready to go back to my ordinary, I like to stay and I like to read that long list of names.
To find out where it was filmed, and how many units were set up in different locations and which townsfolk need to be thanked.
To see just how many people worked in the art department, on costume design and make-up, and how many stunt performers, camera crew and lighting technicians made the leads look so good and by the way, what even is a 'grip'?
And then there's the production babies.
In the credits of Toy Story, Pixar began the custom of listing the names of babies born to anyone involved in the film during production, paying homage to the length of time a crew spends together and the personal relationships established over the period of production.
What we consume in under 120 minutes takes years and a multitude of people to produce, and the credits are the signifier.
Let's go back to Mary Poppins.
It took over 500 people to bring us that single opportunity of simple escapism.
There were the usual stars and of course a few street urchins, 26 leeries (lamplighters) and one 'handsome man', there were 32 in the make-up department, over 130 in the art department and I lost count on the camera and lighting crew.
And though filmmakers often add in a little reward for those that choose to watch the credits, I know that as I read those names I am, in just one small way, acknowledging the work of a large group of talented artists and craftspeople.
Birrarung stories: Just how long have aboriginal people been here?
BEFORE THE 1940s it was thought that the arrival of Aboriginal people in Australia only dated back 2,000 years.
In 1940 this arrival date was dramatically extended when the Keilor skull was unearthed and dated at nearly 15,000 years.
However the skull was in the upper sedimentary levels of the Maribyrnong River Gorge and by 1971, radiocarbon dating had pushed the date of the lower sedimentary layers back to 31,000 years.
In every decade since, the date of human occupation of Australia has inexorably marched backward as new scientific techniques have been developed.
The problem though, is that scientists get attached to the theories and techniques of their own particular discipline.
Certain ideas get entrenched with religious conviction in the scientific community and then in the general public.
For instance the technique of radiocarbon dating originally had a validity level of only 40,000 years, but with technological advancement is now 50.000 years.
That is, the radiation decay in a C14 molecule is such that every 5,730 years its radioactivity decreases by half.
Ultimately you get to a situation when a half of stuff all is still stuff all.
This means that the oldest artefact measured by radiocarbon dating always came out at 40,000 years, regardless of the fact that it might have been 80,000 years or even 180,000 years.
So from this imprecise scientific method, a myth developed that Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years.
This is still the most quoted figure, even by Aboriginal people.
The point is, if you ask the question 'Well, if Aboriginal people arrived here 40,000 or even 50,000 years ago, how did they get here?'
The obvious answer is: 'They arrived by boat during an ice age when the sea levels were lower.'
Well, if that is right then the sea levels were right for migration into Australia around 70,000 years ago.
This is an interesting figure because about 75,000 years ago Mount Toba, a volcano in Sumatra erupted.
It was a catastrophic event that almost wiped out life in the Northern Hemisphere.
The toxic pollution would have been a great motivator to migrate southward into Australia, which was not affected.
However an arrival date in Australia of 70,000 to 75,000 years ago conflicts with the popular 'African Eve' theory.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) research, which traces ancestry through the female line, puts migration out of Africa at 60,000 years ago.
The big problem with such research is that every time a woman has no daughters, her genetic history disappears, because her sons cannot pass on her mtDNA.
This means that the age of African Eve is constantly moving forward as female genetic history disappears. The same flaw also applies to male Y chromosome dating.
New research in fact now shows that there was indeed migration into Australia around 75,000 years ago.
However there is also mounting evidence that Aboriginal people were already here.
Another window for migration at the time of low sea levels occurred about 105,000 years ago, but various new techniques put the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation significantly longer than even this.
In 1985 Australian palaeontologist Gurdip Singh drilled a 72 metre core sample at Lake George in NSW and analysed the pollen and charcoal layers.
He found that the charcoal deposits at a certain point became so regular, that it could only be explained by deliberate human activity.
In other words it was due to Aboriginal firestick farming.
Singh estimated this date as 120,000 years ago, and created a storm of controversy amongst conservatively minded academics.
However his findings were replicated by core samples in North Queensland which pushed the date back to 140,000 years ago.
Since then, thermoluminescence techniques have pushed the date of ochre paintings at Kakadu back to 150,000 years ago.
This is a really interesting coincidence of dates, because at this time there was a 20,000 year window of opportunity for migration into Australia, due to the lower sea levels of an ice age.
So it now seems likely that Aboriginal people first migrated here at least 150,000 years ago.
As marsupial animals cannot communicate diseases to humans they found themselves in a disease free environment, and apart from the marsupial lion (the Dooligar), they had no predatory competitors.
So within 10,000 years of arrival, Australia was fully colonised and Aboriginal people had begun systematically managing the environment by fire.
However you will still see the culturally blind assumption in academic texts that Aboriginals were just using fire to hunt animals, rather than as a sophisticated tool of land management.
Terra Nullius still insidiously influences our thinking.
If firestick farming was going on 140,000 years ago then it was underpinned by a systematic knowledge base.
That knowledge base was of course the totem system, within which all knowledge was integrated to serve ecological purposes.


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A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan
Parent Company: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
More books like A Small Place may be found by selecting the categories below:
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Women
History / Caribbean & West Indies / General
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According to WGSN Neo Mint is going to be the colour for S/S2020, so expect to see it start filtering into fashion and interiors in the run up to 2020. It's a colour move forward from the established position Greenery has held in the interiors field in recent years, adding a bit of a retro vibe to the green corner of the colour palette. To some, the 50's California styling might be slightly (scarily) reminiscent of coloured bathroom suites but bear with and we can try and convince you that it might just be a colour prediction worth considering. Head over to our Director, Rebecca Hunt's Neo Mint Pinterest page for the full image overload!
To embrace the all consuming version then paint walls, woodwork and furniture. Bring it into kitchens on cabinetry, or bedrooms of bedding. Bring a neo mint wallpaper into the picture (we love the Palm Leaves wallpaper by Cole and Son). Or make the briefest of nods to neo mint on furniture detailing, in lighting or artwork.
For added oomph then look at bringing in other colours and tones against the mint. Blush pinks and coral will really reinforce the candy colour influence. Combine with warm woods and ochres to help ground the colour scheme. Mix with greens and actual greenery for a crossover with current and future colout trends. Add navy for a really lush, rich effect. Or for the unconvinced, by greying the mint down towards more of a muted tone you can reduce the candy pastel impact of the true mint tone.
Look for wallpapers by Cole and Son and The Pattern Collective. chairs from Sklum and Clippings, cushions from Mineheart and Timorous Beasties.


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Disable Facebook Timeline
Facebook's new Timeline feature is rolling out to all users, and while we think it's pretty awesome—not to mention ripe for customization there are a lot of people who aren't big fans. If you don't really like the Timeline view, here's how to get rid of it.
This method won't take you back to the old layout, but it will get rid of some of Timeline's clutter, like the cover photo, friends box, and two-column view. The layout will still be different and timeline-y, but
it will be much cleaner. It won't change anything about how other people see your profile—just how you view Facebook on your machine. All you need is an extension called Social Fixer. Here's what you need to do.
Head to Socialfixer.com and install the extension for your browser. It's available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and any browser that supports Greasemonkey. Sadly, Internet
Explorer is not supported.
Once you've installed it, navigate to Facebook.com. You'll notice that there's a lot of extra clutter there right off the bat, but don't worry, we'll fix that in a moment. Look up at the top of the page, to the left of your name. You should see a new wrench icon. Click on that and choose "Social Fixer Options".
Before you do anything else, go through each of the categories and uncheck every box. There are a lot of useful features in there, but for now,
we're going to leave them all blank so we can view Facebook as we're more used to it. If you see features you like, you can go back and
re-enable them later on. For now, uncheck everything you see.
Go to the "Timeline" section of Social Fixer's options, and check the bottom four boxes: "Display posts in a single column", "Hide cover photos", "Hide the friends box", and "Hide maps of check-ins". Click Save.
Find a Facebook profile that has timeline enabled (whether it's your own or someone else's). You should find that while the basics of Timeline are still intact (like the "About" link or the new square profile picture),
all the annoying parts are gone. The cover photo, friends box, maps box, and dual-column view have all been obliterated, and you can view Facebook in a much more eye-friendly format.
Again, remember that other people will still view your profile as the original Timeline view—so you can still add a cover photo for their viewing pleasure, if you wish. I also recommend browsing through Social Fixer's options when you get a chance. There are some pretty cool features in there, like changing the font sizes, hiding the "ticker", and more. If you want to uninstall Social Fixer and take Facebook back to the way it was, you can do so from your browser's add-on page (Firefox > Add-Ons in Firefox, and Wrench icon > Tools > Extensions in Chrome).
Got any other tips for making Timeline more bearable? Share them in the comments below.
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Географија
Град Саут Кингстаун се простире на површини од 146 km².
На територији града налазе се два пописом одређена места (-{CDP}-): Кингстон и Вејкфилд-Писдејл.

Саут Кингстаун се граничи са следећим градовима:
 Чарлстаун - на југозападу
 Ексетер - на северозападу
 Нарагансет - на истоку
 Норт Кингстаун - на североистоку
 Ричмонд - на северозападу

Демографија
По попису из 2020. године број становника је 31.931, што је 1.292 (4,05%) становника више него 2010. године.

Референце

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 Списак градова у САД по броју становника
 Највећи градови у САД по деценијама

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Dana DeVance and former Trustee Mike Morath with last year's Service Above Self award winners.
Rotary Club of Dallas invites nominations for its Service Above Self teacher awards
By Lawana Porter on	 March 2, 2016 News Briefs
In most schools, students, teachers and parents can easily point out the most dedicated, hard-working teachers. They're the ones who generously share their expertise with colleagues, volunteer to sponsor student clubs and activities and go the extra mile to tutor or provide assistance to students who need extra help.
The Rotary Club of Dallas believes such teachers are the life's blood of a successful school, which is why the club seeks to honor them through its Service Above Self teacher awards. From now through April 1, the Rotary Club invites educators, students and parents to help recognize outstanding teachers by nominating them for the annual award. The application and more information about the awards are available online at www.dallasrotary.org/teacher-awards.
This is the 17th year for the service organization to recognize teaching excellence with a luncheon and cash awards. Program coordinator Dana DeVance says the club is looking for Dallas Independent School District teachers who "have exhibited true hearts of service to their students, their schools, and the greater Dallas community. It is one of our missions at the Rotary Club of Dallas to honor the excellent educators here in Dallas," she said. The club will award more than $10,000 in cash awards to finalists at the annual recognition luncheon on Wednesday August 3.
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Specific growth rates (% day-1) and production rates (g m-2 day-1) of Gracilaria sp. reared in net cages on a bamboo floating raft from March 1989 to February 1990 were determined at different stocking densities (200, 250, 300 and 350 g 0.5 m-2/net cage). Mean specific growth rates for the whole culture period were highest at stocking densities of 200 and 250 g 0.5 m-2 (P < 0.05). Highest mean net production rate was obtained at a stocking of 250 g 0.5 m-2, but was not significantly different from stocking densities of 300 and 350 g 0.5 m2 (P < 0.05). Highest monthly mean specific growth rates and monthly mean net production rates for all treatments were obtained during March and November 1989 and February 1990. There were no significant differences (P > 0.05) in monthly mean specific growth rates and mean net production rates between the three peak months, although they were significantly different from the rest of the months (P < 0.05). Production was higher during the dry season. Correlation analysis showed that total rainfall was negatively correlated with specific growth rate and production rate. Salinity, temperature and pH were not correlated with specific growth rate and production rate.
Growth rate and photosynthesis of Microcystis aeruginosa, Scenedesmus quadricauda and Aulacoseira granulata exposed to different concentrations of the agricultural pesticides CNP (p-nitrophenyl 2,4,6-trichlorophenyl ether), MEP [O,O-dimethyl O-(3-methyl-4-nitrophenyl) thiophosphate], ISP [isoprothiolane (C12H18O4S2)], and TBT (tri-n-butyltin chloride) were determined. The effective concentration (EC50) for growth and photosynthesis in each species of microalga was then calculated. Inhibition of growth and photosynthesis in the three microalgae was greatest when exposed to CNP and TBT. Microcystis aeruginosa and A. granulata showed a higher tolerance, whereas S. quadricauda showed a higher sensitivity. Except for MEP, the EC50 values for growth obtained in the three microalgae were higher than those for photosynthesis. The growth–photosynthesis response relationship showed that, for CNP and TBT, growth of the three organisms tested were less inhibited than their photosynthesis at a lower exposure (0.001–0.05 μg/L). At a higher exposure (0.10–1.0 μg/L), the response between relative growth rates and relative photosynthesis was proportional. For MEP and ISP, a proportional response existed between relative growth rates and relative photosynthesis in all test organisms. These results suggest that the inhibition of growth and photosynthesis by agricultural pesticides differs for the three microalgae. The differences can be explained in terms of the physico-chemical properties of the four pesticides and the physiological and morphological properties of the three microalgae.
Growth, survival, and production of P. monodon feeding on four types of natural food, i.e., lablab (benthic mat of cyanobacteria, diatoms, and associated fauna), Ruppia maritima, lumut (filamentous green algae and attached organisms entangled in the water column and on the bottom), and plankton, were evaluated in ponds in Iloilo, Philippines. The gut content of shrimp was analyzed and the flow of the food web was traced using stable carbon isotope (δC) analysis. Twelve 500-m2 ponds were stocked with juvenile shrimp (average weight 0.8 g) and grown for 3 months at the rate of 4000 ha−1. In Ruppia and plankton ponds, the shrimp attained 91–92% survival, and in lumut and lablab ponds, 76–80%. Total shrimp production in Ruppia and plankton ponds was 114 and 129 kg ha−1 crop−1, while lumut and lablab ponds yielded only 59 and 85 kg ha−1 crop−1, respectively. The δC analysis of all treatments was not significantly different, indicating that a common food (detritus), as shown by the gut content analysis, appears to be the most significant food resource of shrimp in this study. Shrimp foreguts from all the treatments consisted of detritus (non-living particulate matter), copepod/animal remains, diatoms, cyanobacteria, and green algae. Detritus ranked highest in frequency of occurrence, followed by copepod/animal remains.


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Lancelot C. Ewbank House, also known as the Ewbank-Loudermilk House, is a historic home located in Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana. It was built in 1883, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, high-style Italianate style brick dwelling with a truncated hipped roof.  It features round-arched windows, decorative scroll brackets, and a wooden porch with intricate decorative elements.  Also on the property is a contributing summer kitchen.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Italianate architecture in Indiana
Houses completed in 1883
Buildings and structures in Parke County, Indiana
National Register of Historic Places in Parke County, Indiana


It is my fourth day at the Best Friends Animal Society temporary shelter in Tylertown, Mississippi.
Most of the dogs in "Pooch Alley" are such sweetie pies. Right now most of the dogs here are pit bulls, rottweilers, chows or some mix involving at least one of those breeds. I assume other breeds were fostered or adopted out of here first and these guys have been left behind.
I just finished playing with one little guy who keeps batting his toys under the fencing of his run. There isn't a dog in the run next to him, there are just about 15 toys. I retrieved a few of them for him tonight, but I am sure tomorrow they will all be out of his reach again. He just loves his toys, he throws them up in the air, pounces on them, and just has a grand ol' time with them.
Then there are the two adorable boys, a white Samoyed mix and and little brown dog, in one pen. They also love their toys and wrestling with each other. When I sit in there with t hem one tries gnawing on my hands and the other just likes to push his whole body into me. He is quite the leaner for such a little dog.
Most of the dogs are remarkably sane considering what they have been through. Of course, I am not seeing them in a home-like situation where they will probably have all kinds of bizarre behaviors. I hope not.
This is my third full day the Best Friends Animal Society temporary shelter for rescued animals in Tylertown, Mississippi. There is somewhere around 15 staff members (that I've seen, anyway) and between 20-30 volunteers here. Not an ideal situation, but things run amazingly well for an emergency situation. The place really relies on volunteers (I've been told that about 1500 volunteers have been through here in the past several months). There is no make-work. We do very essential stuff.
I�ve been assig ned to "Pooch Alley" which houses about 80-some-odd (and yes, some are odd) big dogs. This area consists of runs with mostly one dog per run. Some larger runs have 2 dogs, and a couple very large fenced-in areas have 3 -6 dogs. Each dog gets its own "dogloo," which most of them seem to use (some timid ones rarely come out of them).
All the dogs have toys, and the first day I was here, we handed out new toys brought by one of the other volunteers. In one of the multi-dog pens there is a shy black setter who slinks away when someone goes into the pen. It was heartening to see him playing by himself with his new toy today.
Tomorrow I leave for one week at the Best Friends Animal Society shelter in Tylertown, Mississippi, where I'll be taking care of homeless dogs rescued from Hurricane Katrina.
I am meeting up with two other volunteers at the New Orleans airport and we are sharing a rental car for the 2-hour drive to Tylertown.
I was thrilled to find out that the meals are strictly veg. Today I baked some breads for the volunteers and peanut butter biscuits for the doggies.
I have the week off from work and I couldn't think of a better way to spend the (usually dismal) holidays than taking care of dogs.
I received a holiday card from Visakha SPCA an animal welfare organization in Andhra Pradesh, India. I sent them some money and they sent me a hand-signed card. I was so touched by the image and the sentiments I had to start a blog to share them.
I located the source of the monkey/puppy image on the internet. It was published in a 2002 issue of The Tribune.
"A female monkey fondly cuddles a puppy at a shop in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday. The pet monkey, bought from an animal trader, "adopted" the puppy recently and spends many happy hours hugging it. Hunting and selling of monkeys are prohibited under Bangladesh laws but they are seldom enforced.--Reuters"
Although the monkey seems to have a choke hold on the little pup, both have such a peacfully calm look on their faces that I don't think there was any real choking going on.


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fou una artista plàstica i fotògrafa brasilera.

Va estudiar comunicació a la Pontifícia Universitat Catòlica de Río Grande del Sur, on va ingressar el 1981. Després va iniciar professionalment l'exercici de la fotografia i va fer diferents cursos a la Universitat Federal de Minas Gerais. També va estudiar entre 1991 i 1992 a l'escola d'art Central Saint Martins i a Camera Work, a Londres. La seva obra està inclosa en col·leccions de museus de Brasil, Espanya i els Estats Units.

Obra
 Sem titulo: Untitled: Sense títol (Metalivros, 2005)

Exposicions individuals
 Toalhas, VI Bienal de La Habana, Fortaleza El Morro, 1997
 Oportunidades Ópticas. Galeria UFF, Niterói, Brasil, 1994
 Pós-Imagem. Programa de Exposições do Centro Cultural, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil, 1994
 Ser Um, Galería Arte & Fato, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 1987
 Vi Vendo Re Trato, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1985
 Vi Vendo Re Trato, Funarte, São Paulo, Brasil, 1985
 Vi Vendo Re Trato, Itaú Galeria. Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1984
 Tentativa de Vôo. Margs, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 1983

Premis i reconeixements
 Premi Nacional de Fotografia de la Fundació Nacional de les Arts de Brasil, 1999
 Premi Marc Ferrez de la Fundació Nacional de les Arts de Brasil, 1997

Referències

Escultors brasilers
Fotògrafs brasilers
Caxias do Sul
Alumnes de la Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Artistes de Rio Grande do Sul


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Јосиф Цако (Решица, 11. јун 1906 — Решица, 12. септембар 1966) био је румунски фудбалски дефанзивац. Његови синови Стефан и Георге такође су били фудбалери, играли су углавном у УТА Арад, Стефан је такође био тренер.

Каријера
Јосиф Цако је два пута наступио за Румунију, дебитујући у пријатељској утакмици која се завршила победом 3:2 против Бугарске. Био је део румунског тима на Светском првенству 1930. године, играјући у другој утакмици, у поразу од 4:0 од домаћина Уругваја, који је на крају и освојио трофеј.

Референце

Спољашње везе

Умрли 1966.
Рођени 1906.
Везни играчи у фудбалу
Фудбалери на Светском првенству 1930.
Румунски фудбалски репрезентативци
Румунски фудбалери


The women of roller derby are terrifying athletes. The bouts are frenzied rushes of skaters racing around a tight circular track. Pumping their bodies to speed on the quick straight-aways, the racers push and grease their way around defenders to score points as they pass opposing skaters. Last Saturday night at Redwood Acres, a packed house got a chance to watch two Eugene teams face a pair of Humboldt roller derby teams: the Home Team All-stars and the Redwood Rollers.
The first clue that Eugene's Emerald City Roller Girls had come to scrap was the high-scoring, almost out-of-control opening bout between the Eugene Exhibitionists and the Home Team All-Stars. Within a few minutes of the kick-off scrum, it was evident that neither team was interested in losing. Body slamming defensive hits, scrambling and clawing were the tactics.
Eugene managed to take a victory using a combination of lightning fast jammers (the quick scoring skaters who wind through the pack and can end the jam) and good blocking. Again and again the Eugene Exhibitionist skaters zipped around the stalwart Humboldt defenders and the score climbed.
The opening bout was dominated by the defensive star K-911 (roller derby necessitates a funky nickname), whose flame red hair usually pointed to the most intense fight in the crowd of skaters. Most likely to get past Eugene defenders was the Humboldt superstar Sissy Jr. -- blazing fast on skates and quick to defend her teammates. Despite scrapping hard in the final 10 minutes and closing to a few points, the Humboldt All-stars couldn't grab the crown.
The headlining bout was a whole 'nother level of skating featuring the 'A' teams: Eugene's Skatesaphrenics and Humboldt's Redwood Rollers. Speed increased, and defense tightened. Eugene anchored a trio of defenders in the center of the pack and gracefully pushed rushing skaters out of bounds. The Humboldt defense centered on precise tackles and a zone defense.
Offensively the Rollers careen around the track with low-down speed skating maneuvers. Anya the Bunny Slayer, Guts & Gloria, McNasty, Miller Time and Sockeye are all ripsnort fast. Acrobatics including slingshots and quick crash recovery helped keep Humboldt in the game. Despite the speed, Eugene's tough defense locked up the competition. Bit by bit, their lead grew.
Despite the losses, the Eureka roller derby crowd bumped and jostled joyously. The rough athleticism of body-shaking checks and precise high-speed skating met with yelps and raucous cheering (especially as the crowd figured out how to read the quick breaks of the jammers). Add in a 20-piece horn band and a DJ, and audience members seemed to have a good time. Next bout is September 26 when the North Jetty Betty's face the Widow Makers and the Redwood Rollers square off against the North Bay Bruisers.


Sub: Revision of rates of subscription under Central Government Health Scheme due to revision of pay and allowances of Central Government employees and revision of pension/ family pension on account of implementation of recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.
While thankful for fixing date for discussion on 28th December, 2017, we wish to avail this privilege to draw your kind attention towards certain important issues related to Railway's working and in respect of certain problems of the Railwaymen which needs to be redressed on priority as the same are pending for quite some time, agitating the minds of the Railway employees.
Reference: – This office important circular no. C-164, bearing no.G1/C/0199/Vol-I/Tech, dated 30th May 2017 .
Balbir Singh Turn & Anr.
Three ACP upgradation after 8, 16 and 24 years of service has been approved. The upgradation will take place only in the hierarchy of Grade Pays, which need not necessarily be the hierarchy in that particular cadre.
Consequent upon the decision taken by the Government the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission circulated vide Ministry Expenditure Resolution No.11-1/2016-1C dated 06/07/2017 And Office Memorandum No. 6/1/2017-E.II(B) dated 19.07.2017, the rates of Project Allowance and Compesatory (Construction/Survey) Allowance have been revised w.e.f. 01.07.2017.
Subject: Clarification on family pension admissible to NPS employees on their death attributable to Govt. service – regarding.
Sub: Minimum educational qualification for appointment in Level-1 of the pay matrix of 7 CPC on compassionate grounds.
Attention is invited to instructions issued vide this Ministry's letter under RBE No.73/2017 dated 27.07.2017 and RBE No. 192/2017 dated 11.12.2017, laying down minimum educational qualification for recruitment of staff from open market to posts in Level-1 of the pay matrix of 7th CPC (earlier Grade Pay 1800/-), through all modes, against direct recruitment quota in various departments. Since, appointment on compassionate grounds are made against direct recruitment quota vacancies, the qualification prescribed for posts against direct recruitment quota are equally applicable for considering appointment on compassionate grounds.
Sub: Reckoning of service for entitlement of Post Retirement Complimentary Passes-reg.
(ii) Railway Board's No. E(W)2006/PS5-1/28 dated 18/04/2007 (RBE No. 61/2007).
(iii) Railway Board's No. E(W)2006/PSS-1/28 dated 08/05/2008 (RBE No. 65/2008).
(iv) NFIR's letter No. I/15/Part III dated 28/09/2015.
Sub: Grant of PCO Allowance to the staff of production control Organizations on India Railways-reg.
The eOffice-Lite (SPARROW) portal is already operational for serving DoT Officers (ITS, IP&T AFS, IP&T BWS and IRRS Cadres) for filling up of Performance Appraisal Reports(PARs) from the year 2016-17 onwards.
Subject: Grant of Advances - Seventh Pay Commission recommendations Amendment to Rules of Compendium of Rules on Advances to Govt. Servants reg.
The undersigned is directed to forward herewith a copy of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure O M No. 12(1)/E.II(A)/2016 dated 7th October, 2016 on the subject cited above for information /necessary action.
2. Sr. PPS to Secretary (T)/Chairman, Telecom Commission, New Delhi.
4. PPS/PS to Director General Tele com.
6. All Advisors/S r. DDGs ofDoT field Unit.
Subject: Grant of advances - Seventh Pay Commission recommendations - Amendment to Rules of Compendium of Rules on Advances to Governmnent Servants .
The undersigned is directed to say that in pursuance of the decision taken by the Government on the Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations relating to advances. all the interest free advances stand discontinued as per attached annexure. with the exception that the interest free Advances for Medical Treatment. Travelling Allowance for family of deceased. Travelling Allowance on tour or transfer and Leave Travel Concession shall be retained.
2. ln addition, the advance for training in Hindi through Correspondence Course. which is not mentioned in the. Compendium of Rules on Advances to Government Servants. also stands abolished in pursuance o'l the decrsron ot Government on 7th CPC recommendation.
3. These orders will take effect from the date of issue of this OM. The cases where the advances have already been sanctioned need not be reopened.
4. In so far as persons serving in Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
Sub: Minimum educational qualification for recruitment of staff from open market in Level-l of the pay matrix of 7th CPC- Catering staff-reg.
The Government of India has issued new reward guidelines called "The guidelines for grant of rewards to be paid to the officers, informers and other persons, 2017" on October 10, 2017 to regulate the grant and payment of reward to informers and government officers.
Sub: Recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission-Implementation of decision relating to Special Allowance for child care for women with disabilities.
A copy of approved Correction slip No. 01/2017 on the above subject is enclosed herewith for further necessary action.
Difficulties being faced by the defence pensioners in obtaining the legal heir-ship-certificate, for payment of arrear of pension Where valid nomination has not been made under payment of arrear of pension (Nomination) Rules, 1983 and payment of arrear of family pension, were drawing attention of the Govt. since long.
(i) Under the order of the Pension Disbursing Authority to the heir Without production of legal authority, if the gross amount of arrears of pension claim does not exceed Rs. 25,000/-, provided he is otherwise satisfied about the right of the claimant.
(ii) If the gross amount of arrears of pension claims exceeds Rs 25,000/- but does not exceed Rs 2,50,000/-, under the orders of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts(Pension) on execution of an Indemnity Bond in Form IAFA-642 duly stamped for gross amount due for payment with such sureties as may be deemed necessary and accepted on behalf of the President by an officer duly authorized under article 299(i) of the Constitution.
(iii) In case of any doubt and also in cases where the amount of arrear exceeds Rs 2,50,000/- payment shall be made only to the person producing the legal authority.
4. This Ministry letter No. 1(16)/2009-D(Pen/Policy) dated 15.03.2010 stipulates that in the event of death of family pensioner, the right to receive any arrears of family pension would automatically pass on to the eligible member of the family next in line. The requirement of succession certificate for payment of any arrears occurs only where there is no member in family who is eligible to receive family pension after the death of the family pensioner. Therefore, it has been decided that the provision of this letter will also apply to the payment of arrears of family pension where no member of family is eligible to receive family pension.
Clarification on benchmarks for promotion to administration grades on numerical grading for the APARs prior to year ending 2017.
Sub: Clarification on benchmarks for promotion to administration grades on numerical grading for the APARs prior to year ending 2017.
Enhancement of monetary allowance attached to the Pre-Independence Gallantry Awards.
Sub :- Implementation of the recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission – Revision of the rates of Railway Board Tenure Allowance applicable to the officers of Organized Group `A' Railway Services on their appointment as Deputy Directors/Joint Directors/Directors in Railway Board's office.
The officers of Organized Group `A' Railway Services posted as Deputy Directors, Joint Directors and Directors in the Railway Board are entitled for the payment of Railway Board Tenure Allowance in terms of Board's letter No. PC-VI/2008/I/7/5/3 dated 14.10.2008 (S.No. PC-VI/36, RBE No. 154/2008).
Sub: – Implementation of the recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission – Revision of the rates of Tenure Allowance to officers of Organized Group `A' Railway Services posted as Deputy Directors, Joint Directors, Directors and Group `B' officers when posted against senior scale post in RDSO.
Kindly refer to Board's letter No. PC-VI/2008/1/7/5/3 dated 27.03.2009 (S.No. PC-VI/94, RBE No. 58/2009) on the above mentioned subject.
7th Pay Commission: Central Government employees union to meet PM Modi. It is all over for Central Government employees who were already frustrated with the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. Now it is up to the federations to take up the matter with the Prime Minister and hope that he would hear them out. The question is will the meeting with Narendra Modi help. It would all depend on the mood of the government and also how serious the federations are about the cause.
Subject: Enhancement of monetary allowance attached to Jangi Inam (a Pre Independence Gallantry Award).
I am directed to refer to this Ministry's letter No. 7(119)/2008-D(AG) dated 30th March, 2011 on the above subject and to convey the sanction of the President to the enhanced payment at the following rate to all categories of Jangi awardees and their legal heirs of World War I (Two lives) and World War II (one life only) with effect from 1st August, 2017.
Subject: - Discontinuation of execution of bond for direct recruit candidates as provided under Appendix 21 of P&T Manual IV.


We have both come to our homes in Czech Republic. Once again, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts to the ROARS radio club and all its members for the incredible care and background that we had the chance to experience in Oman! We firmly believe that the result of the contest will be a new continental historical record. Thanks again for a fantastic week spent in Moscat at the wonderful A47RS station.
We made raw over 4000 QSO and 6,6 mil. points. We all hope to be new record in Asia!
And 144MHz EME QSO here.
2m V-pol antennas and close A.C. systems.
Thanks a lot to Hamed A41KT for nice plaquet and A4 presents!
And with great person - Sangeeth A45TT !


The middle verse of the Tanach says, "Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up!" (Leviticus 10:16). To understand what happens in this passage we must go back to chapter 9 when the grand-priesthood inauguration begins.
Hashem, who is a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 4:24) had established a very serious protocol whereby Israel was to approach him. Moses gave very specific instructions about it. Nadab and Abihu, two of the sons of Aaron were careless in their application of the protocol and were utterly burned by the fire of God as they approached the Sanctuary in an unauthorized manner (Leviticus 10:1—3). Aaron was obviously devastated and in mourning but he and his other two sons were in the middle of the grand inauguration (Leviticus 9) so they couldn't stop for mourning; Aaron therefore held his peace (Leviticus 10:3).
Some may argue that God's punishment of Nadab and Abihu was out of proportions and could be qualified as the tantrums of a capricious deity, but instead of reviewing God's actions, maybe we should review our own sense of what is important and what is not. Intersection with God is not to be taken lightly. There may also be more to the event than meets the eye!
Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Adonai, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would Adonai have approved?" (Leviticus 10:19).
What happens here is that Aaron reminds Moses that it was unpleasing to God for a priest to do office while in sadness or mourning (Deuteronomy 26:14; 16:11), a theme even found later among Semitic kings (Nehemiah 2:1-2). So because he was uncontrollably saddened at the death of his two sons, Aaron felt he could not do proper justice to that part of the service which he then forewent. Moses was pleased with the explanation (Leviticus 10:20).
What is to be noticed here is that this center verse of the Torah verse tells us to "search diligently" for the goat of the sin offering which is an early representation of Yeshua's covering. Therefore the central goal of studying to Torah is the search for Messiah's covering.
The Talmud explains that the death of Aaron's sons is not really justifiable, so that it can only be counted as the 'death of the righteous which creates atonement for others', a very prevalent theme in Biblical text. Whether we agree or not with the Talmud's interpretation, since Yeshua is our High-Priest as well as our covering (Hebrews 9:25), this is an idea that very much fits the theme of the priestly inauguration.


The N.J. Legislature and Governor Phil Murphy have taken a powerful step in the current #MeToo moment, as the governor has signed S-121 into law, effective immediately. The law prohibits settlements of workplace discrimination and harassment claims from being kept confidential. Such confidentiality is standard practice for employers that settle workplace disputes. Inspired by the #MeToo movement, many large corporations have discontinued the practice. In New Jersey, all confidential settlement agreements resolving claims of discrimination, retaliation or harassment are now unenforceable.
In addition, the law provides that agreements that waive any substantive or procedural right or remedy relating to a claim of discrimination, retaliation or harassment are now unenforceable. Presumably, this means agreements to arbitrate these types of claims. Further, the law prohibits any prospective waiver or remedy under the N.J. Law Against Discrimination "or any other statute or case law." Presumably, this applies to agreements to arbitrate as a condition of employment. This prohibition also most likely applies to settlement and releases of may require arbitration.
The law takes effect immediately and applies to all contracts and agreements entered into, renewed, modified or amended on or after March 18, 2019. In other words, agreements or contracts entered into before March 18, 2019 remain unimpaired.
Terms of a collective bargaining agreement are excluded.