text:
Edward J. Naidich
enaidich@meimark.com
888-860-5678 x710 (telephone)
Ed Naidich focuses on patent litigation and appeals. He has served as lead counsel in numerous litigation and appellate matters in a variety of technologies, including the wireless CDMA, computer architecture, automotive, power electronic, security system, GPS-based navigation system, and digital video system fields.
Mr. Naidich has broad experience in all aspects of patent litigation, including examining and cross-examining fact and expert witnesses at trial, taking and defending depositions, drafting and arguing claim construction and summary judgment motions, and managing day-to-day litigation activities. He has tried cases before juries and before an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). He has also handled numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Naidich advises clients on a wide variety of patent matters, including licensing and strategic patent prosecution. He also assists clients in settling disputes without litigation.
Before joining Mei & Mark, Mr. Naidich was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. Mr. Naidich also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin A. Schall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to law school, Mr. Naidich served as an officer in the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion headquarters, Naval Reactors, where he gained extensive experience in electrical and nuclear engineering.
Representative Cases:
Paradox Security Systems v. ADT Security Systems (E.D. Tex.).
Leviton Mfg. Co. v. Universal Sec. Instruments (Fed. Cir.).
Koninklijke Philips Elec. NV v. Cardiac Sci. Operating Co. (W.D. Wa.; Fed. Cir.).
American Vehicular Sciences, LLC v. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (E.D. Tex; E.D. Mich.)
American Vehicular Sciences, LLC v. Hyundai Motor Co. (C.D. Cal.)
SecureNova LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. (E.D. Tex.)
Tierra Intelectual Borinquen, LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. (E.D. Tex.)
MHL Tek v. Nissan Motor Co. (E.D. Tex.; Fed. Cir.).
ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-695, Certain Automotive Multimedia Display and Navigation Systems
SPH America, LLC v. Acer Corp. (S.D. Cal.).
BIAX Corp. v. Motorola Mobility, Inc. (D. Colo.).
BIAX Corp. v. Intel Corp. (E.D. Tex.)
ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-529, Certain Digital Processors, Digital Processing Systems, Components Thereof, And Products Containing Same
Intex Recreation Corp. v. Team Worldwide Corp. (D.D.C.).
Microtune, L.P. v. Broadcom Corp. (Fed. Cir.)
J.D., magna cum laude, George Mason University School of Law
S.B., cum laude, Electrical Engineering, Harvard University
Virginia, District of Columbia, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), American Bar Association (Litigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections), Federal Circuit Bar Association
About Mei & Mark LLP
Mei & Mark LLP provides clients high quality legal services in a flexible, cost-effective manner, focusing on the full range of IP practice including U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 Investigations. A minority-owned law firm based in Washington, DC, Mei & Mark LLP has been recognized as one of the Go-To Law Firms at the Top 500 Companies by the American Lawyer.
Mei & Mark LLP
888-860-5678 (US Toll Free)
info@meimark.com
Copyright 2013 - Mei & Mark LLP


The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday put out new draft guidance consisting of 45 questions and answers on the 180 days of exclusivity provided to some generic drugs.
The statute provides an incentive and a reward to generic drug applicants that expose themselves to the risk of patent litigation. It does so by granting a 180-day period of exclusivity for an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) applicant that is first to file a substantially complete ANDA containing a paragraph IV certification to a listed patent.
If an ANDA meets the requirements for approval but cannot be finally approved due to unexpired patents or exclusivities, FDA will tentatively approve the ANDA.
There are a number of conditions under which an ANDA applicant may forfeit eligibility for 180-day exclusivity (all which are further explained in the draft), including: (1) failure to market the drug; (2) withdrawal of application; (3) amendment of certification; (4) failure to obtain tentative approval; (5) entry into agreement with another applicant, the listed drug application holder, or a patent owner; and (6) expiration of all patents.
The draft guidance discusses 180-day exclusivity as it pertains to ANDAs subject to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) statutory provisions, offering an explanation for how the agency determines whether the pre-MMA or MMA provisions of the Food Drugs & Cosmetics Act (FD&C Act) apply to a particular ANDA.
The guidance also explains how an ANDA applicant can qualify as a first applicant, what constitutes a "substantially complete application," whether an ANDA applicant can qualify as a first applicant when it includes both a paragraph IV certification and a section viii statement to a single listed patent (it can), whether an authorized generic can be marketed during the 180-day exclusivity period (it can), and how the timing of sending notice of paragraph IV certification can affect first applicant status.
"For original ANDAs, notice of paragraph IV certification must be provided on or after the date on which the applicant receives a paragraph IV acknowledgment letter from FDA, but not later than 20 days after the date of the postmark on the paragraph IV acknowledgment letter," FDA says.
The agency also notes that there can be different first applicants for different strengths of a drug and how an ANDA applicant can potentially retain eligibility for 180-day exclusivity even if it is not sued over its ANDA, or if sued, the case is resolved or settled.
180-day exclusivity award, and 180-day exclusivity does not extend beyond the life of the patent," the draft says. FDA also said it intends to update this guidance to include additional questions and answers as appropriate.


text:
Neuroscience faculty pursue research programs in biology, psychology and philosophy that are designed to engage students as research scholars. Faculty and student researchers collaborate closely to contribute to the process of discovery and advancement of knowledge.
Below are descriptions of each faculty lab. Interested students should individually contact the faculty member.
Professor Flavia Barbosa, Biology
Professor Shubhik Debburman, Biology
"I am fascinated with how cells manipulate protein shapes. Proteins are the most diverse class of molecules in our cells and their unique functions and shapes hold the secrets of life. If proteins still misfold, they are targeted for destruction to preserve cellular health. But some misfolded proteins that such escape quality control, build up in tissues and cause tragic incurable diseases. I collaborate with undergraduates to investigate the protein folding mysteries underlying one such illness: Parkinson's Disease, which is caused by the misfolding of protein, alpha-synuclein. My students are seeking to understand how alpha-synuclein misfolding and problems with its clearance causes cell death by using innovative experimental model systems: budding and fission yeasts. Students interested in joining my lab can contact me at debburman@lakeforest.edu."
DebBurman Lab website
Professor Matthew R. Kelley, Psychology
"I am interested in discovering the general principles that govern human memory over the short- and long-term. Presently, I am exploring a variety of counterintuitive memory phenomena, such as collaborative inhibition (memory impairment when recalling with a partner), hypermnesia (memory improvement with the passage of time), part-set cuing (memory impairment with hints), and the generation effect for lyrical censorship (enhanced memory for unheard relative to heard information). Students interested in joining my lab can contact me at kelley@lakeforest.edu."
Professor Kelley's lab website
Professor Jean-Marie Maddux, Psychology
"I am interested in basic mechanisms of associative learning, and the brain regions and circuits that subserve learned behavior. Environmental stimuli that signal salient motivational events, such as food or drugs, can acquire powerful control over behavior through Pavlovian conditioning. Broad goals of my research are to consider the role of learning processes that function in addiction, to identify candidate brain areas that allow for this learning to happen, and to investigate neurotransmitter systems that are involved in this learning and its behavioral output (performance). I am particularly interested in contrasting reward related learning for natural rewards (e.g., food or sucrose) vs. drug rewards (e.g, alcohol), and in cholinergic and dopaminergic systems. One line of my current research examines the effect of nicotine, a cholinergic agonist and the main active ingredient in tobacco, on alcohol-seeking behaviors triggered by Pavlovian alcohol cues. Another line of work explores the incentive salience of both Pavlovian alcohol cues and sucrose cues. I use a variety of methods in my research, including behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroanatomical techniques, conducted with rat subjects. Students interested in joining my lab can contact me at maddux@lakeforest.edu."
Professor Maddux's website
Professor Margot Schwalbe, Biology
Professor Naomi Wentworth, Psychology
"I study the development of voluntary behavioral control, mostly in infants and young children. I am particularly interested in the processes that allow us to regulate our behavior so that we can make the correct, though less automatic response, rather than the habitual, though incorrect response. In other words, students in my lab study the origins and development of self-control. In our current studies, we collect eye movement and brain wave data from infants and young children as they perform various visual-spatial tasks in which two response tendencies compete. Students interested in joining my research lab can contact me at wentwort@lakeforest.edu."
Two juniors named 2019 Goldwater Scholars
Niam Abeysiriwardena '20 and Samuel Gascoigne '20 have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships, annual awards for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.
Kelley publishes with four students
Professor of Psychology Matt Kelley and four students in his research lab have published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology—a first for the students but Kelley's 30th published paper.
Show 2 more... (81 total)
Research at Rosalind Franklin

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
AMA Federal Council condemns draconian Queensland doctor contracts
The Federal Council of the AMA has formally condemned the Queensland Government decision to move all Senior Medical Officers in its public hospital system on to unfair and unbalanced individual contracts from 1 July 2014.
The AMA Federal Council, which met in Canberra on the weekend, comprises senior members of the medical profession, with representatives from state AMAs across the country, specialty groups, doctors in training, medical students, and salaried medical officers.
The Council believes that the new arrangements would have a dramatic negative effect on medical workforce numbers and patient access to care in Queensland, and warned that the changes could force doctors to move interstate or into private practice.
The Council resolved unanimously to condemn the proposed changes as a retrograde step that will harm doctors and patients in the Queensland public hospital system.
Senior Medical Officers in Queensland are currently covered by an enterprise agreement with Queensland Health, and successive enterprise agreement negotiations in Queensland have focused on the attraction and retention of Senior Medical Officers.
AMA President, Dr Steve Hambleton, said today that the previous negotiation processes have helped to significantly lift the number of public hospital doctors in Queensland and have improved access to care for patients.
"The proposed new individual contracts will strip away key employment rights and undermine the progress Queensland has made in growing its public sector medical workforce," Dr Hambleton said.
"These draconian contracts will remove key protections such as fatigue provisions and rest breaks, limits on hours, access to unfair dismissal, dispute resolution, and grievance procedures.
"Salaried doctors are currently being given two weeks to comment on proposed contracts, but crucial information regarding remuneration, hours of work, and rights of private practice is still to be provided.
"The whole medical profession across Australia is united in its opposition to these contracts.
"The Federal AMA urges the Queensland Government to abandon its proposed changes and work with AMA Queensland (AMAQ) and the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) to reach employment arrangements that work best for the doctors, their patients, and the Queensland health system.
"Any loss of senior doctors from the public hospital system would limit patient access to medical care and make it harder to train the next generation of doctors entering the system to provide care for Queenslanders."


The concept Medicaid represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in University of San Diego Libraries.
Administration's fiscal year 1983 budget proposal : hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress ..
Behind the Numbers: An Explanation of CBO's Jan. 1997 Medicaid Baseline : CBO Memorandum.


it is not you and it is not me.
you are actually reading his program of the matrix.
You have gone a bit higher into the awakening zone where seeing starts to develop.
which are not their thoughts either.
They are all a synthetic product of the matrix.
It is not just us identifying with an illusion, but the fact that we identify other beings with an illusion.
We assign them thoughts they do not think and actions they do not do….
in fact, the very majority of people are purely asleep.
Yesterday, I had an amazing evening with a friend.
We both lay on the porch's roof watching stars.
I saw 7 shooting stars.
he saw 6… so, in his program there were no 7 stars, but only 6.
there were no 7 or 6, there was no star-gazer and there was not us.
and realized I was blaming people for the thoughts and the actions they performed.
I also realized that the only way to change things is to change the program.
But to change the program means you actually start playing the game.
instead of walking toward the exit door.
And so there is love flowing freely to those beautiful sleeping beings I have touched.
There is nothing this mind tells me about them which is true.
as it is foreign to the mind.
But there, there is love.


text:
Darren Moore: Body of well-known drag queen found in Cardiff city centre alleyway
Darren Moore was last seen at about 5am on Sunday wearing full face make-up, a luminous green dress, blonde wig, heels and carrying a clutch bag. Detectives are appealing for anyone who may have seen him in Cardiff city centre during the early hours of Sunday to get in touch.
Wednesday 25 January 2023 08:21, UK
Image: Darren Moore
Police are investigating the sudden death of a well-known drag queen who was found dead in a city centre alleyway in Cardiff.
Darren Moore, a 39-year-old from Newport, was last seen at about 5am on Sunday while wearing full face make-up, a luminous green dress, blonde wig, heels and carrying a clutch bag.
Detectives are appealing for anyone who may have seen Mr Moore in the city centre during the early hours of Sunday to get in touch.
Detective Chief Inspector Paul Raikes, who is leading the investigation, said: "Extensive enquiries are being carried out to establish the cause and circumstances of Mr Moore's death.
"Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time. A Home Office post-mortem has been conducted and further examinations are currently ongoing to establish cause of death.
"I would like to thank the community for the excellent support they have provided to this investigation so far this week, which has helped enormously and I would appeal for anyone with information to please come forward.
"I would also like to respectfully ask people to refrain from speculating on social media about what has occurred and please let the police investigation take its course."
Read more from Sky News:
What a 12-hour paramedic shift is really like
UK has 'most regionally divided' advanced economy
Serving Met Police officer pleads guilty to child sex offences
Superintendent Michelle Conquer said: "We understand there is shock and upset in the local and wider community following the death of Darren Moore who was a well-known drag artist in Cardiff.
"While an investigation is ongoing, our neighbourhood policing team as always will continue to provide a visible police presence in the city centre.
"A police cordon is in place while enquiries continue at the scene, and we thank the community for their support at this time.
"South Wales Police is proud to represent and protect all communities that it serves.
"Cardiff has a long and proud tradition of recognising, celebrating and protecting equality and diversity.
"Anyone who has concerns is asked to please contact South Wales Police in confidence."
'Our social butterfly never judged others'
In a statement issued by police, Mr Moore's family said: "Darren Moore was a loving husband, son, brother, uncle and friend.
"He was always the life and soul wherever he went, he was Our social butterfly. He made sure he had a lot of time for people, and never judged others.
"Darren's husband and family want to thank everyone for their support but now need time to grieve and respectfully request privacy at this time."
A GoFundMe fundraising page has been set up to raise money for Mr Moore's family.
It said: "Anyone who knew Darren would know how he was never understated in his appearance and costume. His larger-than-life character and charisma were something that you'll never forget.
"We'd like to support Darren and the family and give Darren the biggest send off. If you're able too and can afford a few quid, please donate what you can to ensure we do him proud."
Tributes have been paid from across Cardiff's gay community.
The Golden Cross, Wales's oldest LGBT+ venue, posted on Twitter: "We are deeply saddened to learn of Darren Moore's passing.
"Many of you will know of his long-standing support of the Golden.
"He was the life and soul of the party and would always be entertaining the masses, usually accompanied with a round of shots."


text:
Q: django-The page isn't redirecting properly I have a middleware that check user profile. If auth user doesn't have a profile, then redirect to user profile. My browser displays the error The page isn't redirecting properly.
class Check(MiddlewareMixin):
    def process_request(self, request):
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            user = request.user
            try:
                profile = Profile.objects.get(user_id = user)
                if profile:
                    pass
            except ObjectDoesNotExist:
                return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/profile/')

I'm use django-allauth.

A: It sounds like you might have an infinite redirect loop. Check the request path, and do not redirect if the user is trying to access /accounts/profile/.
class Check(MiddlewareMixin):
    def process_request(self, request):
        if request.user.is_authenticated() and request.path != '/accounts/profile/':
            ...

A: Make sure you are using The Right view, in my case i was using:
view
class Blog_View(View):
    model = Blog
    template_name = 'blog.html'

instead of
Listview
class Blog_View(ListView):
    model = Blog
    template_name = 'blog.html'

A: Check your secret key in setting.py I solved this problem with to remove get_random_secret_key().
Before
SECRET_KEY = env.str("SECRET_KEY", get_random_secret_key())

After
SECRET_KEY = env.str("SECRET_KEY")

Now Im using unique SECRET_KEY and it works fine in prod service.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Electricity Production in Finland reached 6,483 GWh in Feb 2019, compared with 7,397 GWh in the previous month. Electricity Production data of Finland is updated monthly averaging at 6,006 GWh from Jan 1992 to Feb 2019. The data reached an all-time high of 8,742 GWh in Dec 2010 and a record low of 3,474 GWh in Jun 1992.
What was Finland's Electricity Production in Feb 2019?


Stay up to date every morning, with the SanTanValley.com Daily Morning Newsletter. Start your morning ahead of the game with news, events, jobs, deals and more straight to your inbox. Delivered 7 days per week.
Looking for a weekly overview? Then the SanTanValley.com Weekly Friday Overview is just what you're looking for. Delivered straight to your inbox, every Friday afternoon, it's a great way to catch you up on what has happened that week and gives you a peek into what is coming up too.
Used for emergency alerts only.


text:
E-mail: david@bizlawny.com
626 RXR Plaza
Uniondale, NY 11556
David Abeshouse
Business Arbitrator, Mediator, Dispute Resolution Lawyer, ADR Consultant
Law Office of David J. Abeshouse
✔ Employment ✔ Entertainment
✔ Franchise ✔ Health Care
✔ Insurance ✔ International
✔ Joint Ventures ✔ Legal Malpractice
✔ Mergers & Acquisitions ✔ Non-profit Organizations
✔ Partnerships ✔ Professional Fees
✔ Professional Negligence ✔ Real Estate
✔ Shareholder Disputes ✔ Sports
✔ Technology ✔ Torts
✔ Trade Secrets and Confidentiality Disputes
I have arbitrated and mediated diverse business cases derived through multiple sources, including satisfied past clients, many business and legal colleagues, ADR forums, my published writing as well as public speaking engagements, and the internet. I have taught CLE courses in ADR to lawyers, judges, and neutrals; have represented clients in hundreds of varied business arbitrations and mediations over the past three decades; and have served as neutral Arbitrator or Mediator in hundreds of diverse business cases during the past two decades, both through forums as well as privately. I have helped train new and experienced arbitrators and mediators on behalf of the NY State Bar Association. Matters have involved numerous closely-held and family businesses with all of the attendant issues that arise when the business owners are related or otherwise involved beyond the business or professional practice, as well as businesses and professional practices ranging from solopreneurs to substantial medium-sized businesses to multinational corporations.
Principal: Law Office of David Abeshouse, 2000 - present.
Partner/Associate: Ackerman, Levine, Cullen & Brickman, LLP, 1986 - 2000.
Associate Litigation Attorney: Golenbock and Barell, 1984 - 1986.
Associate Litigation Attorney: Colleran, O'Hara, Kennedy & Mills, P.C., 1982 - 1984.
Federal Judicial Law Clerk: U.S. Magistrate-Judge, USDC, SDNY, 1980.
Cases:
Civil (general),
Contracts,
Franchise,
Health Care,
Joint Venture,
Labor - Management,
Legal Malpractice,
Mergers & Acquisitions,
Non-profits,
Professional Fees,
Professional Liability,
Real Estate,
Shareholder Disputes,
Torts,
Trade Secrets,
Workplace, among others.
Extensive training in arbitration and mediation, totaling many hundreds of hours since the late 1980s, including Arbitrator I and II training at the American Arbitration Association; numerous training courses at numerous AAA, CCA, NADN, and similar annual retreats over the past decade; dozens of CLE and other training courses through national, state, and local bar associations and law schools; numerous online webinars; and more. Also teach neutrals, retired judges, and lawyers about arbitration and mediation, on behalf of various providers such as the AAA, CCA, national/regional/local bar associations, webinar providers, and others.
Admitted to the Bar: New York, 1983; U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1983; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1993; U.S. Supreme Court, 2004.
New York Metro SuperLawyers (ADR Law): 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Selected as Charter Member of NYAMA and member of its parent organization, the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN). Please click to view my member profiles:
http://www.nadn.org/david-abeshouse http://www.nymediators.org/david-abeshouse (Member of Executive Committee)
Avvo.com Lawyer Rating: 10.0/10.0 Superb -- Continuously from 2009 through present.
Mediate.com Certified Mediator -- "Senior Mediator"
Panels:
American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Neutrals; International Centre for Dispute Resolution Commercial Panel; Resolute Systems; several others.
College of Commercial Arbitrators (Fellow); Member of National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN) and Executive Committee of its New York Chapter, the NYAMA; ADR sections/committees of various national, state, and local bar associations (1983 - present); Co-Founder of the Attorney Round Table (2000 - present); Founding Board Member/Vice President of the Health & Business Alliance, Inc. (2003 - 2018); Founding Board Member and past General Counsel of Long Island Entrepreneurs Group, Inc. (2000 - 2013); Member, International Network of Boutique Law Firms (INBLF); Member, New York State Dispute Resolution Association (2008 - present); Member, American Bar Foundation (2018 - present).
University of Pennsylvania (BA - 1978)(English major, BioPsychology minor, concentrations in Chemistry, Economics, and Music)
Vanderbilt University School of Law (JD - 1982) Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation (Cambridge, MA, April 2018)
-- David Abeshouse wrote an article that was published in the November 2015 issue of the Nassau Lawyer, the monthly publication of the Nassau County Bar Association. The article describes a unique non-forum pro se international commercial arbitration proceeding (in which David served as Arbitrator), and is entitled: "Non-Forum Pro Se Arbitration of International Commercial Dispute: A Unique Case Study."
-- David Abeshouse wrote an article that was published in the April 2015 issue of the Nassau Lawyer, the monthly publication of the Nassau County Bar Association. The article is entitled, "Civility in Negotiations: A Tactical Advantage" and the issue was distributed to 10,000 lawyers in the region.
-- David Abeshouse has written an article that was published by the NY State Bar Association's "Corporate Counsel Section," about Alternative Dispute Resolution – it's entitled:Business Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Provides Fast, Fair, Flexible, Expert, Economical, Private, Customized Justice. It was published in the Fall 2014 issue of the NY State Bar Association's publication "INSIDE" which is targeted at corporate in-house General Counsel. This is the second article David has written for this publication.
-- David Abeshouse has written an article that has been published by the NY State Bar Association's Corporate Counsel Section, about Alternative Dispute Resolution in technology cases – it's entitled: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law – Why Tech Lawyers Should Care, and What They Should Do About It. It appeared in the Fall 2013 issue (Vol. 31, No. 2) of the NY State Bar Association's publication "INSIDE" which is targeted at corporate in-house General Counsel.
-- David Abeshouse wrote an article for the Winter 2008 issue (Vol. 4, Issue 2) of Law Trends & News, an online publication of the American Bar Association's General Practice/Small Firm Section, entitled, FAQ re: ADR (Frequently Asked Questions About Alternative Dispute Resolution: Commercial Arbitration and Mediation). The article addresses threshold questions about Alternative Dispute Resolution -- arbitration and mediation -- within the context of business dispute resolution.
Past Adjunct Professor of ADR Law, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY; former professional musician; wine appreciator.


When is National Poetry Month?
Do you know that place before the street begins? It's where the grass grows soft and white and the sun burns crimson bright. It's where you might even see the moon-bird rest from his flight in the cool peppermint wind.
If you said it's where the sidewalk ends, you're right! That means you've probably read or heard Shel Silverstein's famous poem Where the Sidewalk Ends a time or two. And today is the perfect day to read it again!
Every April is National Poetry Month. Organized by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month began in 1996 as a way to encourage the public to experience and enjoy poetry in the United States.
Many children around the world learn to love poetry by reading the famous works of Shel Silverstein. Born in Chicago on September 25, 1930, Sheldon "Shel" Silverstein was an American author who created poetry and children's books, as well as songs, screenplays, and cartoons.
Shel Silverstein's works have been translated into over 30 languages around the world. His books have also sold more than 20 million copies, making him one of the world's most popular children's authors.
In addition to collections of poetry, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, Silverstein is well-known for his most popular children's book, The Giving Tree. Intended to give children a realistic look at life, The Giving Tree continues to be one of the most discussed children's books of all time. It also continues to be listed as one of the best children's books of all time.
Think you could continue in Silverstein's footsteps and write poetry or children's books? Sure you could! Silverstein himself began writing when he was only 12 years old. He claims that girls showed no interest in him and he didn't have much athletic ability, so he began to write. Since he wasn't familiar with the styles of any famous poets, he developed his own unique style. We're so glad he did!
Although he didn't write as much in his later years, he did publish Falling Up: Poems and Drawings in 1996. Silverstein passed away a few years later, succumbing to a heart attack in Key West, Florida, on May 10, 1999.
Listen to Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts. Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts. Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, Anything can be.
Tomorrow's Wonder of the Day is so good that we hope it's not bad for you!
Are you familiar with Shel Silverstein's famous poem? If not, read it right now! Jump online to read Where the Sidewalk Ends. What do you think of the poem? What images does it create in your mind? Where do you think the sidewalk ends?
To celebrate National Poetry Month, read some more of Shel Silverstein's poetry. If you look online, you'll find many Shel Silverstein Poems to read. Read several and compare them. Which ones do you like best? Why? Share a couple of your favorite poems with a friend or family member. Which poem do they like best? Why?
Up for a challenge? Write your own poem that answers the question of where the sidewalk ends. Be as creative as you want to be! Use your imagination and then put together a short poem that takes readers on a journey to the end of that imaginary sidewalk. Don't worry about form. You can rhyme if you want or simply write free verse. It's up to you. You're in control. Only you know where the sidewalk ends, and it's time to tell the world. Have fun and be sure to share your work with a friend, family member, or a teacher!
i thought this was a great article even outstanding thanks you so so much for this article.
Whoa, we reached OUTSTANDING level?? 🎉🏆👏 Seriously, we are very grateful that you are enjoying WONDERing with us. Thanks, Fa1234!!
😻 We feel the same way, Wonder Friend!
Thx wonderopoils!! And how did you do the emoji/happy face? I'd love to know!!
I have read all his books!! XD And I'm new to this and i already love it!!!
Well, you need to read Shel Silverstein's poem to get a fuller appreciation for this Wonder. Without that, you're right: this Wonder doesn't seem to make much sense. Thanks for speaking up, Duh!
it still didn't answer my question. when does the sidewalk end?
I don't know if this is already a thing, but if it's not, you should add a button that sends you to a random Wonder. That would be cool.
Very interesting maybe add more detail.
This is a wonderful wonder.
When the street comes . Or at a dead end .
In what month is National Poetry Month celebrated each year?
Who wrote The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends?
National Poetry Month began and Shel Silverstein's Falling Up: Poems and Drawings was published in what year?


The latest data released by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) reveals that HIV/AIDS is well under control. The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) has helped cut estimated new infections by 80 percent since the peak of the epidemic in 1995. Also, AIDS-related deaths decreased by 71 percent since 2005.
The HIV Estimations 2017 show that the number of new HIV infections reached 87,580, which was 86,000 in 2015 and AIDS-related deaths touched 69,110, which were at 67,600. This was when around 22,675 mothers needed Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in 2017, but in 2015 it was 35,000.
As per the report, in 2017, India had around 21.40 lakh people living with HIV (PLHIV) with the adult prevalence of 0.22%.
Around 87.58 thousand new HIV infections and 69.11 thousand AIDS-related deaths happened in 2017 while around 22,675 mothers needed Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
HIV Estimations 2017 corroborate the previous rounds in terms of the characteristic of the HIV epidemic in India i.e. national prevalence and incidence remain low, but the epidemic is high in some geographical regions and population group.
The rate of decline in annual new HIV infections has been relatively slower in recent years.
The report concludes that, overall, the impact of the programme has been significant with more than 80% decline in estimated new infection from the peak of the epidemic in 1995. Similarly, the estimated AIDS-related death declined by 71% since its peak in 2005.
The objective of HIV Estimations is to provide updated information on the status of HIV epidemic in India at national and State/UT level. Estimations of adult HIV prevalence, annual new infections (HIV incidence), AIDS-related mortality and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) needs are produced as outcomes of HIV estimations. The modeled estimates are needed because there is no direct reliable way of measuring these core indicators which are used to track the epidemic and monitor and evaluate the response in countries around the world.
The report highlights the significant achievement of National AIDS response on prevention as well as on treatment front but has also indicated that there is no place for complacency as a country move forward on the ambitious goal of attaining the 'End of AIDS' by 2030.
It is a division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that provides leadership to HIV/AIDS control programme in India through 35 HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Societies.
As the epidemic spread, the need was felt for a nationwide programme and an organization to steer the programme. In 1992 India's first National AIDS Control Programme (1992-1999) was launched, and National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) was constituted to implement the programme.


text:
New $133 Million Available for Race to Top Early Learning Grants
By Alyson Klein — April 09, 2012 2 min read
The five states that narrowly missed winning a slice of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Fund will get a chance to compete for $133 million in new money, the U.S. Department of Education announced today.
Eligible for this round: Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Nine states already have split $500 million in early-learning funding last year, including California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington. The program is focused on helping states develop plans to expand access to high-quality preschool programs, including for low-income children.
This year, Congress provided $550 million for Race to the Top overall. That means, that after the early learning money goes out, there should be roughly $417 million left for a new district-level competition. The Education Department is still working out the details on just what that will look like.
When it comes to funds for the Early Learning Challenge Grants, the department is taking a similar route to the Race to the Top Round 3—aka the "Bridesmaid Edition." Under that round, the department offered the nine states that narrowly missed winning a grant the chance to implement one piece of their original proposal. (One, South Carolina, said no thanks. And another, California, didn't submit a completed application.)
It's unclear whether the new Early Learning Challenge Funds will flow the same way. The department is planning to put out an application in the fall. The money will definitely need to be out the door by the end of the calendar year in December.
The five states in this round can compete for up to 50 percent of the money they were eligible for under the original Early Learning Challenge Fund. Under that program, grants were worth from $50 million to $100 million, depending on the details of a state's proposal and its population of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Interesting twist: The department went back over the scoring for the first round of the Early Learning Challenge Fund and found some "scoring inconsistencies" in seven states, including Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Wisconsin.
That means some of the state's scores have changed, in some cases by as much as 10 points. For instance, Wisconsin went from a 234 to a 224, out of possible 300 points. And Hawaii went from a 135.2 to a 125.2.
The corrections didn't result in different winners. And the same states are eligible for the new, runners-up-only Early Learning Challenge funding.
But, even though the errors didn't make a big difference in outcomes, they could be fodder for the growing numbers of folks who aren't fans of the department's competitive grant programs.
Education organizations (such as the National School Boards Association), Republicans and even many Democrats on Capitol Hill would much rather see the administration pump education money into the big formula programs that go out to every district, Title I grants for districts and special education. Some have even called the scoring processes for competitive grant programs arbitrary and confusing.
Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Patrick Semansky/AP
Education Funding Congress Could Go Big on COVID-19 Aid for Schools After Democrats Take Control
Andrew Ujifusa, January 7, 2021


text:
"Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference" by Cordelia Fine - Various Reviews
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine is getting a lot of attention in the world of book reviews and gender/masculinity blogging. And with good reason - it dispels a lot myths about brains and gender, what Fine calls neurosexism.
Here are some reviews and an interview or two. This book sounds excellent and necessary - people like John Gray and other purveyors of mythic gender stereotypes have brainwashed the general public into thinking that men are violent and emotionally shallow and women are emotional and bad at science. It's about time someone uses science to set the record straight.
The gender myth
Forget those who say men and women are fundamentally different, writes Robin McKie.
It's the mainstay of countless media articles. Differences between male and female abilities - from map reading to multi-tasking and from parking to expressing emotion - can be traced to variations in the hard-wiring of their brains at birth, it is claimed.
Men instinctively like the colour blue and are bad at coping with pain, we are told, while women cannot tell jokes but are innately superior at empathising with others. Key evolutionary differences separate the intellects of men and women, and it is all down to our ancient hunter-gatherer genes that program our brains.
The belief has become widespread, particularly in the wake of the publication of international bestsellers such as John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus which stress the innate differences between the minds of men and women.
Challenging "neurosexism" ... Delusions of Gender author Cordelia Fine.
But now a growing number of scientists are challenging the pseudo-science of ''neurosexism'', as they call it, and are raising concerns about its implications. These researchers argue that by telling parents that boys have poor chances of acquiring good verbal skills and girls have little prospect of developing mathematical prowess, serious and unjustified obstacles are being placed in the paths of children's education.
In fact, there are no major neurological differences between the sexes, says Cordelia Fine in her book Delusions of Gender, to be published by Icon next month. There may be slight variations in the brains of women and men, says Fine, a researcher at Melbourne University, but the wiring is soft, not hard. ''It is flexible, malleable and changeable,'' she says.
Read the whole review.
'Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference'
327 pages | Buy this book
So you thought sexism was a thing of the past? Not so much, says Cordelia Fine. A growing number of Americans believe there's an "immutable" biological difference between the male and female brain. But brain differences are no explanations for why so few women are engineers and so few men go into nursing. Fine says old myths dressed up with new science are propagating dangerous new conventional wisdom, and when it comes down to it, she argues, all that science just doesn't add up.
What's the Big Deal?
Everyone, it seems, is pointing out the innate differences between men and women lately: Louann Brizendine's The Male Brain purports that men are simply less emotional than women; Leonard Sax has led increased calls for single-sex education to better cater to the different needs of girls and boys; even the World Economic Forum recently suggested that corporations are failing to capitalize on distinctly female talents. But isn't that all just an excuse to keep inequities in tact? Perhaps. Because if men and women truly have different brains, shouldn't we all just accept that it's men who are hard-wired for jobs in engineering, politics, and science, and that women should—as Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen has put it—accept their place in the world of primary-school teachers, nurses, and social workers? Actually, no. Fine links brain psychology to persistent workplace inequities, which show what all this skewed thinking is costing women today.
Buzz Rating: Hum
The New York Times reviewed the book last week, and the feminist blogosphere is sure to take the buzz up a notch.
One-Breath Author Bio
A research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Fine is also the author of A Mind of Its Own, about how the brain distorts and deceives. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from University College, London.
"Is it realistic . . . to expect two kinds of people with such different brains to ever have similar values, abilities, achievements, lives? If it's our differently wired brains that make us different, maybe we can sit back and relax. If you want the answer to persistent gender inequalities, stop peering suspiciously at society and take a look right over here, please, at this brain scan. If only it were that simple."
Read more, including some stuff from the book.
Q&A: 'Delusions of Gender' author Cordelia Fine
Nodes of a brain circuit for social emotion and approach behavior activated more in teenage girls than in boys with age. Functional MRI data (red) superimposed on anatomical MRI images.
CAPTION: NIMH Emotion and Development Branch
Anticipating readers might have more questions about her book's suggestion that brain scan study differences between men and women don't add up to much, we asked author Cordelia Fine of the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Australia's Macquarie University, to talk in more detail some of the points in her August book, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference. Here are some of her answers, by email:
1. What do you see as your book's main message?
A: The main message of the book is that our comforting beliefs about gender – that everything's fair now, that sex inequality should be blamed on 'hardwired' differences between the sexes, and that our failure to rear unisex children just points the same way – just don't bear up to scrutiny.
2. A lot of our anonymous online readers will take one look at this book and comment to us that a shrewish feminist author is blinded by her ideology and can't see the evidence as plain as her nose that boys and girls are inherently different. Is there anything you can say to them?
A: It's definitely long overdue for feminists to get a PR makeover; it's sad if that old shrew/pc image is putting off people who might otherwise find themselves genuinely interested in the science (or lack of science) behind widely held beliefs about sex differences. It turns out you don't have to have a desire for political correctness to object to popular claims about 'hardwired' sex differences – just a desire for scientific correctness. Unfortunately, objection to the careless treatment of the science of sex differences is often confused with disapproval of the very idea of intrinsic sex differences.
Read the whole interview.
"Delusions of Gender": The bad science of brain sexism
Some studies claim that women are innately bad at math, and men are bad at empathy. Here's why they're wrong
By Thomas Rogers
Women's brains are wired differently from men's. It's why so few women do well in math. It's why women gravitate toward dolls and tea sets as young children, and why they're so much better at understanding other people's emotions. It's why they're so good at housework! (Men are more wired to focus on one task — like arithmetic.) At least that's what a host of recent studies in the field of neuroscience have argued. Too bad they're wrong.
In her new book, "Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference," Cordelia Fine, a research associate and the author of "A Mind of Its Own" (also about brain science), discovers that, far from supporting the existence of vastly different male and female brains, much of the research on the topic is not only deeply flawed, but dangerously misleading. Women aren't worse at math (as Fine proves in the book, bad neurological research is one of the reasons women are still struggling to catch up in the field), and girls' preference for girlish toys probably has more to do with social expectations than what's in their skulls. Fine's book is a remarkably researched and dense work that, even while tackling highly complex subject manner, retains a light, breezy touch.
Salon spoke to Fine over the phone from Australia about the science of single-sex schooling, the message of "Revenge of the Nerds," and why women aren't really better than men at interpreting people's feelings.
Why did you write this book?
It began when I read a parenting book that claimed that hard-wired sex differences meant that girls and boys should be parented and taught differently. When I looked at the actual studies being used as evidence, I was really shocked by how badly the neuroscientific findings were being misrepresented. I saw the same thing going on in other popular books about gender, and when I looked, I was surprised to discover how little convincing evidence there was that, for example, the male brain is hard-wired to be good at understanding the world and the female brain is hard-wired to understand people.
Why are people so intent on misrepresenting the differences between the male and female brain?
We look around in our society, and we want to explain whatever state of sex inequality we have. It's more comfortable to attribute it to some internal difference between men and women than the idea that there must be something very unjust about our society. As long as there has been brain science there have been misguided explanations and justification for sex and inequality — that women's skulls are the wrong shape, that their brain is too small, that their head is too unspecialized. It was once very cutting-edge to put a brain on a scale, and now we have cutting-edge research that is genuinely sophisticated and exciting, but we're still very much at the beginning of our journey of understanding of how our brain creates the mind.
Gender gap a scientific myth, says psychology expert
Cordelia Fine book explodes experts' consensus of major differences between male and female brains hardwired at birth
Amelia Hill
They are the questions that have troubled – and antagonised – men and women for generations: why can't females read maps, why can't males multitask, and why do girls like Barbies while boys prefer guns?
But claims that men are naturally analytical and competitive while women are compassionate and nurturing are, according to a new book, based on bad science – and, at worst, are "monstrous fictions".
Dr Cordelia Fine, author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference, says there is no convincing evidence that our brains are hardwired according to gender, and no such thing as "biological destiny".
"Avid readers of popular science books and articles about gender may well have formed the impression that science has shown that the path to a male or a female brain is set in utero, and that these differently structured brains create essentially different minds," says Fine, whose book is published in the UK this week.
"These cultural lores, which in popular hands can become nothing short of monstrous fiction, are standing in the way of greater sex inequality – just as measures of skull volume, brain weight and neuron delicacy did in the past".
Read the whole article.
Peeling Away Theories on Gender and the Brain
By KATHERINE BOUTON
"Delusions of Gender" takes on that tricky question, Why exactly are men from Mars and women from Venus?, and eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularizers who take their findings and run with them.
Jeanette Ortiz-Burnett/The New York Times
The author, Cordelia Fine, who has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from University College London, is an acerbic critic, mincing no words when it comes to those she disagrees with. But her sharp tongue is tempered with humor and linguistic playfulness, as the title itself suggests. Academics like Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr. Louann Brizendine will want to come to this volume well armed. So would Norman Geschwind if he were still alive. Popular authors like John Gray ("Men are from Mars"), Michael Gurian ("What Could He Be Thinking?") and Dr. Leonard Sax ("Why Gender Matters") may want to read something else.
Sometimes all it takes is their own words, as in this example from Dr. Brizendine's 2007 book "The Female Brain": "Maneuvering like an F-15, Sarah's female brain is a high-performance emotion machine — geared to tracking, moment by moment, the nonverbal signals of the innermost feelings of others." Is Sarah some kind of psychic? Dr. Fine clarifies: "She is simply a woman who enjoys the extraordinary gift of mind reading that, apparently, is bestowed on all owners of a female brain."
Experts used to attribute gender inequality to the "delicacy of the brain fibers" in women ; then to the smaller dimensions of the female brain (the "missing five ounces," the Victorians called it); then to the ratio of skull length to skull breadth. In 1915 the neurologist Dr. Charles L. Dana wrote in this newspaper that because a woman's upper spinal cord is smaller than a man's it affects women's "efficiency" in the evaluation of "political initiative or of judicial authority in a community's organization" — and thus compromises their ability to vote.
Tags: neuroscience, brain, psychology, gender differences, sex roles, men, women, Delusions of Gender, Our Minds, Society, Neurosexism, Difference, Cordelia Fine, Reviews
Labels: books, brain, gender differences, men, psychology, sex roles, women
Some Reviews of the Evolving Men's Conference
NPR - The End Of The Macho Man?
Secret Lives of Men - SAM KEEN: "Fire in the Belly...
Jayson Gaddis - The Shadow and My Major Blind Spot
The Art of Manliness Podcast Episode #32: Is There...
Study confirms women have become more like men
Day Two - Evolving Men's Conference: Personal Refl...
Tom Matlack - Male Bonding
Day One: Evolving Men's Conference - My Reflections
Jeremy Sherman - Four I's: Your true selves, really
The Evolving Men's Conference - Boulder, CO
A Shrink for Men Interveiws Paul Elam of A Voice f...
Should Women Embrace the "New Macho"?
Richard J. Loebl - Who's in Charge – Understanding...
What Are men Looking for in a Mate?
What Does It Mean to "Man Up"?
Men's Lib - Why it's time to reimagine masculinity...
Thoughts Toward a Developmental Model of Masculine...
Are boys really the weaker sex?
Family Focus - Custody Battle: Dad's Story
Brian Gresko - Nurture vs. Nature: Which Determine...
Upaya Dharma Podcasts - Cultivating Compassion and...
Irene Monroe - Why Johnny can't think critically
Esquire - 20/50: The Esquire Survey of American Men
T-Nation - 10 Awesome Challenges by Tim Henriques
Relationship Fix for Men - Nonsexual Touch Is Good!
Queer Youth Embrace Fluid Identities
J. Steven Svoboda - Defining the Purpose of Boys
Ethel Spector Person - Masculinities, Plural
Male and female ability differences down to social...
"Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and ...
Roy F. Baumeister's "Is There Anything Good About ...
Strong Silent Types - Understanding Boys': Thinkin...
Atrazine Is Turning Us into Girlie Men
Recipe - Jamie Eason: Turkey Meatloaf Muffins
Greta Christina - 5 Things Society Unfairly Expect...
Slate: Young Women Better Educated, Earning More t...
Refuting the "Disease" of Masculinity
Barton Goldsmith: Men, Women, Emotions and Communi...
New research says men are more vulnerable than women
Social Stress Increases Male Neurogenesis
New York Men Hate Vegetables and Die Earlier
2.5 million British Men Too Fat to See Their Own P...
Mindfulness Meditation Increases Well-Being in Ado...
Elizabeth DeBold - What Do We Mean by "Masculine" ...
Career Values Inventory - Life Values?
Greta Christina - 5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Thin...
Strong Silent Types - Rewriting Masculine Gender S...


until a third party had approved of the invention.
asked if he could sleep there, was told that he could and he signed the lease.
to a claim for breach of contract.
horse, would appear to have had special knowledge.
The buyer of hops asked whether sulphur had been used in their cultivation.
make the prior statement a contractual term.
position to know of the heifer's condition.
place, but the defendants refused to take her back.
entitled the producers to repudiate Poussard's contract.
but he could not repudiate Bettini's contract.
fundamental as to give the right to terminate the contract.
difference in value between damaged and sound goods at the agreed destination.
term being a condition they were entitled to do so.
being required to do so in writing.
terminate the contract forthwith without notice.
entitled him to a fair allowance for the seeds and labour he used on the land.
The owner of a wharf agreed to provide mooring facilities for 'The Moorcock'.
and was, therefore, liable in damages to the ship owner.
"Terms of The Contract Cases | Contract Law." Parallelewelten.net. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 04 2019 <http://parallelewelten.info/cases/terms-cases.php?vref=1>.
"Terms of The Contract Cases | Contract Law." Parallelewelten. Parallelewelten.net, November 2013. Web. 19 April 2019. <http://parallelewelten.info/cases/terms-cases.php?vref=1>.
Parallelewelten. November 2013. Terms of The Contract Cases | Contract Law. [online]. Available from: http://parallelewelten.info/cases/terms-cases.php?vref=1 [Accessed 19 April 2019].
Parallelewelten. Terms of The Contract Cases | Contract Law [Internet]. November 2013. [Accessed 19 April 2019]; Available from: http://parallelewelten.info/cases/terms-cases.php?vref=1.


02/08/2017. Unsolicited call from company called Make It Cheaper. Put phone down and added to blocked calls.
Further numbers that were allocated to the caller "Make It Cheaper"
as asian sounding salesman called a few times as i recognise... 36 more comments!
This guy Mark Meldrum keeps calling from this number 3 - 4 t... 1 more comments!
it was to offer me a cheaper deal on my bradband and TV so m... 12 more comments!
Telemarketer the company "make it cheaper". I do not know if... 1 more comments!
I received a call approx 7 pm, and the man on the phones acc... 56 more comments!


text:
Sheriff claims Border Patrol has told officers to STOP arresting Mexican illegal immigrants... to keep official figures down
Daily Mail UK (Link) (April 20, 2011)
Border Patrol agents have told dozens of law enforcement officers to stop arresting illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico, an Arizona sheriff has claimed Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever claims the order was issued to reduce official figures on the number of apprehensions at the border.
He said agents have instead told him and other law enforcement officers to chase the immigrants back towards Mexico.
He claims has been �flooded� with emails supporting his accusations.
The revelations come just a few weeks after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cited the lower arrest rates as evidence of a more secure border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Alan Bersin even said: �The border is more secure than it has ever been.�
Sheriff Dever first made the claims to Fox News earlier this month, saying several Border Patrol officials - including at least one senior supervisor - told him they had been ordered to turn immigrants �Back South� (TBS) rather than arresting them.
At the time, Border Patrol chief Michael Fisher wrote to Sheriff Dever denying the accusations.
He said: �That assertion is completely, 100 per cent false. That it comes from a fellow law enforcement official makes it especially offensive.�
But according to the sheriff, he has received more than 100 emails from law enforcement officials supporting his claims since the report was published.
They claim they have first-hand knowledge of the Border Patrol�s alleged strategy of turning immigrants back to keep arrest figures down.
One San Diego border agent told him: �Upper management has advised supervisors to have agents �turn back South� (TBS) the illegal aliens (aka bodies) they detect attempting to unlawfully enter the country � at times you even hear supervisors order the agents over the radio to �TBS� the aliens instead of catching them.�
�This only causes more problems as the aliens, as you know, don�t just go back to Mexico and give up. They keep trying, sometimes without 10 minutes in-between attempts, to cross illegally.�
He said he felt the policy made his job even more dangerous, because the immigrants become more �defiant� and feel like they can get away with breaking the law.
Another wrote: �This is nothing new, during my career with the border patrol, this was done regularly. By assigning agents to different tasks, locations, etc., the apprehensions can be increased or decreased dramatically.�
One of Sheriff Dever�s Arizona colleagues, Paul Bebau, testified in support of his claims at a Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, Fox News reports.
He said he asked his top lieutenant whether he had heard anything about the allegations.
The officer replied: �Sheriff, I have heard that myself directly from border agents in the Tucson sector.�
Homeland Security officials answered the new allegations with the same statement they sent to Fox News last month.
Jeffery Self, commander of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Joint Field Command, wrote: �As the commander for border enforcement operations in Arizona, I can confirm that the claim that Border Patrol supervisors have been instructed to under- report or manipulate our statistics is unequivocally false...
�To suggest that we are ambiguous in enforcing our laws belittles the work of more than 6,000 CBP employees in Arizona who dedicate their lives to protect our borders every day.� �


Febest produces a wide choice of arm bushings (plugs) for steering gears (steering racks), also offering arm bushing kits for steering gear.
Although competition amongst manufacturers of arm bushings is quite high, not many produce just arm bushings (plugs) for steering gears (racks), and Febest offers a particularly wide choice of goods in this sub-category.
Car owners will definitely appreciate the possibility of changing a broken arm bushing without installing a new steering gear, which is a perfect chance to save a hundred or sometimes a thousand Euro.
For instance, a new original steering gear for cars such as Lexus LX470 UZJ100 1998-2007, Toyota Land Cruiser 100 HDJ101/UZJ100 1998-2007 costs around a thousand Euro. The full arm bushing kit made by Febest for this steering gear will cost you twenty times less.
TAB-UZJ100-KIT – the arm bushing kit for steering gear for Lexus LX470 UZJ100 1998 2007, Toyota Land Cruiser 100 HDJ101/UZJ100 1998-2007.


At Podsacs we measure the volume of our packs using the American National Standard 'Standard Test Method for the Measurement of Backpack Capacity'. This uses non-compressible hard plastic spheres to fill and measure the extended and non-extended capacity of the pack and is the internationally recognised procedure for measuring pack capacity.
Our packs are weighed both fully specified and stripped on accurate and consistent scales so that we are confident that the stated weights are genuine. Competitors packs often use exaggerated volume claims which make their volume to pack weight ratios inaccurate. At Podsacs we pride ourselves on stating accurate volume to weight ratios and building durable packs that outlast the competition.


Version 1.6 of Rad Timer for BlackBerry 10 has been released at BlackBerry World. This is a maintenance release to solve a few issues with the count down timer.
Fixed a bug where the countdown timer was set incorrectly for users in different time zones.
Improved the audio playback of timer alerts.
Fixed a minor issue with sharing a completed countdown timer.


text:
Q: bootstrap grid with 24 cols and 12 cols on the same page I have a question about bootstrap's grid system.
I need in the same page 2 grids - row with 12 cols and row with 24 cols.
In row with 24 cols i have 3 elements - with 1 cols, with 20 cols and with 3 cols.
I can not split 2th element (with 20/24) as Gleb Kemarsky mention here
I need in the same page grid with normal (12 cols), so i can not use bootstrap's @grid-columns 's variable. As zessx mention here


text:
Voice Of The River: Henry's Fork Foundation
Farms and Fish: A Fly-Fishing Mecca in the Seed Potato Capital of the World
The Henry's Fork, and its famed Harriman State Park, are known around the globe as a mecca for anglers aiming to test their fly-fishing prowess. Decades of research shows that the crux of this world-class fishery, is the Island Park Dam and its 135,000-acre-foot reservoir.
Over the course of three decades, the Henry's Fork Foundation (HFF) has developed programs to study, monitor, and conserve the Henry's Fork Watershed. But after four years of drought ending in 2016, the worst since the Dust Bowl, it became clear that the organization would need to come up with new strategies to meet the pace and scale of unprecedented changes to water supply.
Fish need water, but without water rights or any management authority, HFF relies on collaboration, and being a trusted source of data to influence decision making in favor of fisheries and watershed health. Despite these limitations, HFF has had uncommon success; conserving tens of thousands of acre-feet of water over and above what would be available in a given year.
Two programs, both developed after the 2016 drought, particularly contribute to this water conservation. The first is a partnership between HFF, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, and Friends of the Teton River, called the Upper Snake Collaborative Farms and Fish Program. Farms and Fish is a voluntary program that works with local farmers to reduce irrigation demand through a variety of tools, including leasing land to defer irrigation, soil health initiatives, new markets, crop conversions, and installation of modeling and scheduling software on irrigation infrastructure.
The program is also looking to partner with breweries on a "Trout-Safe" beer, modeled after the "Salmon-Safe" program in the northwest. The Farms and Fish program is estimated to have conserved at least 1,200 acre-feet of water for the Henry's Fork this year.
The other key program is called "precision management". The Henry's Fork Foundation has developed statistical models on available water supply, precipitation, snow-water equivalent and more, to predict water conditions and help water managers more precisely manage, and thereby conserve, water in the Henry's Fork Watershed.
Daily communication of this data by HFF to water managers and other water users, as well as remote-controlled canal head gate technology, is estimated to have saved approximately 20,000 acre-feet of water in Island Park Reservoir in each of 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. This was achieved in 2021 despite record low precipitation and water supply (6th and 4th lowest since 1978, respectively).
There is no doubt that efforts to keep more water in Island Park Reservoir results in better overall water quality in the system, more fish habitat, and increased winter flow. Years of research shows winter flow is the number one factor determining trout overwintering survival and number of catchable sized trout in the river downstream the following year. Unfortunately, this year, some of that water savings came at a cost to irrigators as system-wide water rights limitations kept diversion low.
A long-term weather outlook of hotter, drier, and more extreme conditions indicates that these innovative programs will be more critical than ever. Family farms and conservation can, and should, go hand-in-hand. Those who maintain the viability and health of our agricultural working lands can help improve surface and ground water resources for the benefit of people, communities, farms and, of course, fish.
To learn more about the Henry's Fork Foundation, visit henrysfork.org.
Photos by: James Chandler Photography and Natalie Pontikes.
Tags: Environment


text:
yawp
Yawp is a privately-owned company based in Los Angeles, CA.
We have proudly developed the Yawp App, a fun and innovative social application. With exciting features such as yawpfeed, news, leaderboard and more, we are giving back the power to the users.
You can follow and be followed by users who share similar interests as yours.
Yawp allows users to voice their opinions and concerns – even strong ones - in a fun social way that differentiates itself from any other App!!
Users can communicate what they dislike in a timely fashion.
For instance, a business may be 'yawped' after an environmental blunder. A sports team may be 'yawped' for not showing eagerness to win despite its great financial resources. A politician may be 'yawped' for his questionable statements.
GET ACCESS TO YAWP DAILY LEADERBOARD
The Leaderboard is what yawp is all about!!
Updated Daily, Weekly or Monthly, don't miss the trend, and see who is at the top of the Leaderboard.
"The next big social App"
"Amazing Design"
"Beautiful Features"
"So Creative"
"Unprecedented"
"Powerful and Fun"
© 2022 yawp, inc.


Blood Brothers by Winnipeg author Colleen Nelson (Dundurn, 237 pages, $13, paperback) is a young-adult novel that will shock and scare, but also intrigue and enlighten.
Set in an only thinly disguised section of Winnipeg's North End, the story follows 15-year-old best friends. Link and Jakub are inseparable, until Link's older brother Henri returns from jail and heads up a gang called the Red Bloodz.
Link and Jakub also have a love of tagging — spray-painting messages and scenes on public buildings — but when Jakub gets a chance at attending a prestigious school Link feels abandoned and turns to the Red Bloodz instead. Henri persuades Link that stealing cars only penalizes insurance companies. But before long, misdemeanours escalate into murder. Meanwhile, Jakub is torn between living up to his father's expectations and trying to keep Link out of trouble.
Nelson's novel pits friendship and family values against the attractions of easy money and gang acceptance. The author of Finding Hope, The Fall and Tori by Design, this is her most serious novel so far and one that deserves acclaim.
Fans of fantasy may enjoy Spindle by Ontario writer E.K. Johnston (Hyperion, 368 pages, $20, hardcover). A companion young-adult novel to A Thousand Nights, it is set several hundred years after the first book.
The demons, who were driven out by the Storyteller Queen and kept imprisoned by the power of bright iron, have managed to regain power. When the true princess — the Little Rose — is born, a demon is waiting to inflict a curse upon her that leads her to a crucial decision.
Spindle traces the journey of a group of spinners with their magic spindles as they journey across the mountains to regain their kingdom and defeat the demons who threaten them.
Johnston is a forensic archaeologist by training who has written several books in the fantasy genre. This Sleeping Beauty rewrite will appeal to lovers of myth and legend.
A graphic novel, Seeking Refuge by Irene N. Watts and illustrated by Kathryn Shoemaker (Tradewind/ Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 128 pages, $19, paperback) does an admirable job of telling the story of one child who is separated from her family and sent from Germany to Britain during the early years of the Second World War.
A followup to Goodbye Marianne, Seeking Refuge shows how differing customs, lack of sympathy and hostile feelings impact this young girl who has never before been separated from her family. She is shuttled between different households where she is ignored, abused, or simply taken advantage of before she is finally reunited with her mother.
The similarity between her situation and that of hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees today is clear.
Shoemaker's illustrations are done in black and white pencil, and their very sparsity adds a sombre feeling to the narrative. Readers eight to 12 years of age who appreciate graphic novels will find this an interesting read.
Anyone who dislikes rainy days would enjoy Under the Umbrella by French author Catherine Buquet and illustrated by Marion Arbona (Pajama Press, 32 pages, $19, hardcover). First published in French and here translated by Erin Woods, the book describes how a grumpy older man complains about the rain until he meets a young child who ignores the downpour as he gazes at the window of a pastry shop in Paris. Eventually the man joins the child to sample the delectable offerings.
Arbona's artwork, in gouache and pencil, is the real highlight of this rhyming story. She is a three-time Governor General's Award finalist, and her unique illustrations evoke the very feeling of a rain-soaked day. For youngest readers (2-4).
Helen Norrie is a former teacher/librarian who enjoys the variety and excitement of children's books.


text:
Suspect at large in Nelson County after crashing stolen SUV
, BEEN RELEASED. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEADLY SHOOTING, CLAL 574-LMPD. TONIGHT, POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE SUSPT ECWHO LED OFFICERS ON A CHASE IN BULLITT COUNTY, BEFORE CRASHING INTO A HOUSE IN NELSON COUNTY. IT STARTED THIS MORNING WHEN SHEPHERDSVILLE POLICE TRIED TO STOP A STOLEN SUV HEADING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY1. 6 OFFICERS ENDED THE PURSUIT IN LEBANON JUNCTION. BUT A SHORT TIME LATER, STEAT POLICIES- - POLICE IN NELNSO COUNTY FOUND THAT SUV CRASHED INTO A HOUSE ON HIGHWAY 61 IN ST
A suspect is at large after a vehicle theft turned into a police chase which then ended in a crash, according to the Shepherdsville Police Department.Around 9:30 a.m., Shepherdsville police spotted a white SUV which had been reported stolen out of Louisville with one person inside it.Officers pursued it heading south on Highway 61 before ending their pursuit at Lebanon Junction.Kentucky State Police out of Elizabethtown then picked up the pursuit, coming from the other direction, and found and secured the vehicle after it had apparently crashed on Highway 61 next to the community center in the town of Boston.The suspect fled from the scene of the crash and is still at large.Police hope to use video from a house in front of which the SUV crashed to get more information that can help find the suspect.
BOSTON —
A suspect is at large after a vehicle theft turned into a police chase which then ended in a crash, according to the Shepherdsville Police Department.
Around 9:30 a.m., Shepherdsville police spotted a white SUV which had been reported stolen out of Louisville with one person inside it.
Officers pursued it heading south on Highway 61 before ending their pursuit at Lebanon Junction.
Kentucky State Police out of Elizabethtown then picked up the pursuit, coming from the other direction, and found and secured the vehicle after it had apparently crashed on Highway 61 next to the community center in the town of Boston.
The suspect fled from the scene of the crash and is still at large.
Police hope to use video from a house in front of which the SUV crashed to get more information that can help find the suspect.


The record high comes despite a raft of US tariffs, adding fuel to the fire of a worsening trade war.
Relations between the world's two largest economies soured sharply this year, with US President Donald Trump vowing on Thursday to inflict economic pain on China if it does not blink.
The two countries imposed new tariffs on a massive amount of each other's goods mid-September, with the US targeting $200bn in Chinese imports and Beijing firing back at $60bn worth of US goods.
Chinese exports to the US have at least temporarily defied forecasts they would weaken after being hit by punitive tariffs of up to 25 percent in a fight over American complaints about Beijing's technology policy.
"Exports continued to defy US tariffs last month but imports struggled in the face of cooling domestic demand," said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report.
"We expect both to soften in the coming quarters," he said.
China's trade surplus with the US grew 10 percent in September from a record $31bn in August, according to China's customs administration - a 22 percent jump from the same month last year.
China's overall trade - what it buys and sells with all countries including the US - logged a $31.7bn surplus, as exports rose faster than imports.
The yuan has lost nearly 10 percent of its value against the US dollar this year. That prompted suggestions Beijing might weaken the exchange rate to help exporters, but that might hurt China's economy by encouraging an outflow of capital.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - in comments published in the Financial Times this week - warned China against engaging in competitive currency devaluations.
China's stock market has plunged this year but the trade war has also started to erode Trump's oft-touted US stock gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than five percent for the week.


Ranked No. 9 in Billboard magazine's list of Hot 200 All-Time Top Artists, Chicago's lifetime achievements include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, two Grammy Awards®, multiple American Music Awards, Founding Artists of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The band's record sales top one million, and include 21 Top 10 singles, five consecutive No. 1 albums, 11 No. 1 singles, and five Gold singles. Additionally, an incredible 25 of their 36 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.


text:
Q: Reorder chat tabs so tabs with newest received or sent messages are on top of list I'm working on a simple messenger.
This is how the Chat table looks like:

This is how the User table looks like:

This is how the PinnedUser table looks like:

By using this query I can display chat tabs with users I have pinned (pinned to the Messenger so I can chat with them).
SELECT pu.*, u.* FROM User u JOIN PinnedUser pu ON pu.pinned_user = u.user_id
WHERE pu.pinned_by_user = $actual_user ORDER BY u.first_name ASC

Example of chat tabs:

When I click on one of those tabs, chat messages with that user are displayed.
Right now the tabs are ordered by users first name (you can see that in the query above). What I need to somehow do is, that I need to order tabs by newest messages.
So if "Anet" sends me a message (and I refresh the page because right now I don't wanna do it with AJAX), that tab will appear on the top of the tab list. Then if "Demo" sends me a message (and I refresh the page because right now I don't wanna do it with AJAX), "Demo" tab will be positioned on the top and "Anet" will be right below him. So I need the tabs to be ordered by "newest received or sent messages" just like Facebook has it in its messenger.
I tried to do the magic with GROUP BY but I failed.

A: You need to retrieve the date of the latest received message from each user - for this, we need to look up table chat. You can either join, or use a correlated subquery directly in the where clause:
select pu.*, u.*
from user u
join pinneduser pu on pu.pinned_user = u.user_id
where u.user_id = ?
order by (
    select coalesce(max(send_at), '200-01-01')
    from chat c
    where c.sender_id = pu.pinned_user_id and c.receiver_id = u.user_id
) desc

coalesce() is there in case there are no messages to be found, in which case the pinned user should be sorted last (this assumes that you don't have messages before year 2k).
You might want to retrieve the message date as well, to display it in your application or else (in which case we don't need a default value):
select
    pu.*,
    u.*,
    (
        select max(send_at)
        from chat c
        where c.sender_id = pu.pinned_user_id and c.receiver_id = u.user_id
    ) latest_message_sent_at
from user u
join pinneduser pu on pu.pinned_user = u.user_id
where u.user_id = ?
order by (latest_message_sent_at is null), latest_message_sent_at desc


text:
Email to me as pdf:
Victorian WorkCover Authority unsuccessful in indemnity claim
Ana Kolovos
Corporate and commercial Insurance Employment and safety
In brief - Occupiers' duty of care does not extend to preventing every foreseeable injury
Declaration of interest: Partner Rose Raniolo and special counsel Ana Kolovos acted for Monash University in this case.
In Victorian WorkCover Authority v Monash University [2016] VSC 178, the Supreme Court found that Monash University did not breach its occupier's duty of care to an injured worker as, among others, a reasonable person would have done nothing in the circumstances to prevent the risk of harm. The University was therefore not liable to indemnify the Victorian WorkCover Authority, which had brought a claim for statutory indemnity pursuant to section 138 of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 (Vic) (ACA) for the injured worker's compensation payments.
Worker seriously injures ankle slipping and falling in garden bed on University campus
The worker was employed by Gryph Investments Pty Ltd which operated the Gryph Inn Bar and Bistro within Monash University's Caulfield campus.
The worker commenced employment as the manager of the Gryph Inn on 1 September 2010. On 6 October 2010, the worker sustained serious injuries when she slipped and fell in a garden bed while walking from the Gryph Inn to her car which was parked on Queens Avenue. The worker initially brought proceedings against Monash University, which settled in 2015.
Upon leaving the Gryph Inn, the worker had the option of accessing her car on Queens Avenue by walking down a concrete stairway or walking along a paved concrete ramp. The worker walked along the paved concrete ramp, however, approximately half way down the ramp, elected to veer off it by cutting across a garden bed located adjacent to the ramp. About halfway down the garden bed, the worker's right foot slipped and shot out backwards, causing her to fall and sustain serious injuries to her ankle.
At trial, evidence was led from the worker and a co-worker that a pathway had been forged in the garden due to frequent pedestrian use. The worker gave evidence that shortly after the commencement of her employment, she followed a maintenance employee of Monash University along the paved concrete path and across the pathway forged through the garden bed. The worker subsequently cut across the garden bed in the same fashion when walking to and from her car. The worker stated that she had used the garden bed in this way on many occasions prior to her incident and in all weather conditions without difficulty.
Monash University's liability for worker's injuries among issues in dispute at trial
The following issues were in dispute:
Were the worker's injuries sustained in circumstances creating a liability in Monash University?
If liable, what amount was Monash University required to indemnify the VWA in accordance with the formula prescribed by section 138(3) of the ACA.
Foreseeable risk and risk of injury considered by Court on University's duty of care
The primary area of contention at trial was whether, as an occupier, Monash University owed the worker a duty of care and whether it had breached this duty on this occasion such as to cause the worker's alleged injuries.
Pursuant to section 14B of the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic), an occupier owes a duty to "…take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that any person on the premises will not be injured or damaged by reason of the state of the premises or of things done or omitted to be done in relation to the state of the premises".
In considering the duty owed by Monash University, the Court took into account:
whether the risk created by the hazard was foreseeable, and
whether the risk of injury was reasonably foreseeable
No liability to indemnify Victorian WorkCover Authority as no breach of duty of care found
The Honourable Justice McDonald held that Monash University did not breach its duty of care to the worker. Consequently, Monash University was not liable to indemnify the VWA pursuant to section 138 of the ACA. In arriving at this decision, McDonald J gave consideration to the following matters as prescribed by section 14B(4) of the Wrongs Act.
Firstly, McDonald J assessed the gravity and likelihood of the probable injury. This, he warned, should not be assessed with the benefit of hindsight. The fact that the worker sustained a serious injury did not of itself support the conclusion that a serious injury was probable.
Secondly, while McDonald J conceded there was a foreseeable risk of someone slipping by reason of the slope of the garden bed, its variable surface and its exposure to the elements, he dismissed that it was probable that an injury would occur, let alone that such injury would be serious. McDonald J took into account the worker's age (52) and her ability to appreciate the potential dangers presented by traversing the garden bed which were not concealed. Consequently, McDonald, J held that a person who was not impaired in any way by consumption of alcohol or drugs, had the ability to appreciate the risk (albeit a slight risk) associated with using the garden bed as a short cut.
Thirdly, McDonald J accepted that Monash University was aware of the use of the garden bed as a pathway and could have alleviated the risk created by the pathway. However, His Honour considered that Monash University did not make the pathway and it was not the obvious point of access to Queens Avenue given the availability of alternate means of access provided by way of the concrete stairway and the paved concrete path.
Finally, McDonald J held that "a reasonable person in the position of Monash would have done nothing to prevent access to the garden path and/or place a warning sign at the commencement of the path" (at [47]). In arriving at this conclusion, His Honour relied on the following:
there was no evidence of earlier injuries occurring on the garden bed
the probability of a person sustaining injury was low
there was no concealed danger in the garden bed
the slope of the garden bed was gradual and the surface was exposed to the weather and was obvious to any person using it
Monash University had provided a safe means of ingress and egress to Queens Avenue
Monash University had not taken any steps to make the garden bed an obvious route for persons walking to Queens Road
Applicability of Part X, sections 48 and 49 of the Wrongs Act
The application of Part X of the Wrongs Act to a claim for statutory indemnity brought pursuant to section 138 of the ACA was brought into issue in the proceeding by way of submission made on behalf of the VWA. It was submitted that section 48 and section 49 of the Wrongs Act were not relevant to the question of whether, for the purposes of section 138(1) of the ACA, the worker's injuries were sustained in circumstances which created liability in Monash University.
Sections 48 and 49 provide the general principles of negligence and set out that a person is not negligent in failing to take precautions against a risk of harm unless:
the risk was foreseeable
the risk was not insignificant, and
in the circumstances, a reasonable person in the person's position would have taken those precautions
Section 48 prescribes certain factors to be taken into account when assessing whether a reasonable person would take precautions against a risk of harm, including the probability of the harm, the seriousness of the harm, the burden of taking precautions and the social utility of the activity which creates the harm.
Section 49 provides additional guidance and section 49(2), in particular, provides that the fact that a risk of harm could be avoided by doing something differently, does not of itself give rise to or affect liability.
In holding that it is necessary to consider sections 48 and 49 of the Wrongs Act when determining liability under section 138(1) of the ACA, McDonald J adopted the same reasoning as The Honourable Justice Beach in the decision of Victorian WorkCover Authority v Jones Lang Lasalle (Vic) Pty Ltd [2012] VSC 412. In that matter, Beach J held that:
…the amendment made following Alcoa raises the possibility that in determining the liability of the defendant under subsections (1) and (2), relevant provisions of Part X of the Wrongs Act fall to be applied. However, when coming to calculate the amount in accordance with the formula in section 138(3)(b), those same provisions are to be disregarded…Notwithstanding that it is difficult to discern why Parliament would intend the provisions of Part X of the Wrongs Act not to be taken into account in the calculation of the formula, in circumstances where they might fall to be taken into account on the question of liability, to hold otherwise would do unacceptable violence to the language of subsections (1) and (2) of s 138. … (at [37])
No right to statutory indemnity if liability for breach of occupiers' duty of care cannot be established
While the case does not change the law relating to occupiers' liability, it does serve to highlight that while occupiers owe a duty of care, that duty of care does not extend to preventing every foreseeable injury. Where a reasonable person would have done nothing in the circumstances to prevent the risk of harm, liability will not be established. If liability cannot be established, the VWA cannot establish a right to statutory indemnity pursuant to section 138 of the ACA.
CBP Focus - June 2016
This month's feature article comes from our banking and finance team: Islamic financing to be bolstered significantly in Australia by proposed tax changes.
Forward-looking statements for mining and resources companies - new ASIC guidelines
Future statements must be based on reasonable grounds
Ana Kolovos Partner
Rose Raniolo Partner


2 BURNER SHAWARMA MACHINE. WORKS ON NATURAL GAS20 KG MAX. MEAT CAPACITY400*580*700 MM5590 KCALelectrıcıty: 110v-220vAdvantage of using with motor; you..
1 BURNER SHAWARMA MACHINE. WORKS ON propane GAS 110v-220v10 KG MAX. MEAT CAPACITY320*450*380 MM2795 KCALIF YOU WANT TO BUY MORE THAN 1 PCS PLEASE CONT..


text:
Saudi Arabia and Iran's 'intensifying' Feud Could Soon End OPEC-led Supply Cuts, Strategist Says
Elevated geopolitical tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran could soon threaten the unity of an OPEC-led pact to keep oil prices in check, according to one commodity strategist.
"Saudi Arabia-Iran tensions appear to be intensifying. While this provides a geopolitical premium in oil for now, it could develop cracks in OPEC's unity, which could end the pact prematurely," Nitesh Shah, commodities strategist at ETF Securities, said in a research note Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia and Russia have led an ongoing effort by OPEC and other allied oil producers outside the cartel to try to clear a global supply overhang. The output cuts, expected to remain in place until at least the end of 2018, have helped to lift crude prices over the past 12 months.
Saudi Arabia and Iran's 'raging' proxy war
However, the current deal between allied major oil producers could soon be at risk amid heightened tensions over an escalating proxy war between two of OPEC's top three crude producers, Shah said.
"The Saudi proxy war with Iran has been raging for over two years, with little reflection in the price of oil until recently. Unless investors are constantly reminded of the risks, the premia tends to evaporate within a matter of weeks," he added.
The ongoing civil war in Yemen is akin to a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and their competing ideologies of Sunni and Shia Islam, respectively. While Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia backs the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, its rival Iran backs the pro-Shia Houthi movement loyal to the country's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"While OPEC are doing really well in terms of compliance with their current deal and are likely to provide strong words of support for continuing some sort of an arrangement going into 2019, they will be talking about how to taper down the scale of the support at this May meeting," Shah told CNBC Tuesday.
'Oil prices likely to lose steam in 2018'
The current agreement between OPEC and allied non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output by 1.8 million barrels a day is set to be extended beyond 2018. And while the deal is set to be reviewed in May, multiple OPEC energy ministers have endorsed retaining a relationship that could help prevent another destabilizing collapse in oil prices — like the one that began in mid-2014.
Oil prices have since recovered to above $60 per barrel after crashing down to about $30 at the start of 2016, though Shah projected the recent rally would probably "lose steam for the rest of the year" amid fleeting political risk premia.
Read full article by Sam Meredith on CNBC, April 3, 2018.


Decades ago, people used to dream about travelling to different places and acquiring international standards of education to make their future better. This process of acquiring education involves a heavy sum of money. It is a fact that not everyone can afford to pay huge sums of money in order to gain education. Very few people can only afford such high costs of education which gives them a competitive edge over others. Those who could not afford it are left to suffer and struggle all their lives. Whereas, those who are born rich and are able to bear huge expenses, they travel abroad to avail education and make their future even brighter. Those who are born poor are forced to quit education as they could not afford it and hence they are left to work hard with no growth at all. Obviously, it is not possible for everyone to bear huge expenses for education. Without education, there is no career. An individual can only work at one position, no matter how hard he/she tries, just because of incomplete academic record. This looks a bit unfair. Obviously, it is not a choice of individual to be poor or rich. It is in their destiny. But, everyone should be given a fair chance to change their destiny and brighten their future.


text:
Arts culture entertainment
St Mel's Musical Society all set for Oliver!
All involved with the forthcoming St. Mel's Musical Society production of Oliver! are putting the finishing touches to the eagerly awaited show with the official launch in Coy's Bar (the main sponsors) this Thursday night, March 27, starting at 9pm.
Members of the cast and the production team will take a break from the hectic rehearsal schedule to mingle with the sponsors at the launch with music by Paschal, Davy and Liz. And there are various other people working hard behind the scenes, particularly the Set Construction crew, to maintain the usual high standards associated with the annual Longford musical.
Liz Leavy (who sings with Paschal's popular band) is also a member of the Oliver! cast. Liz will play the part of Mrs. Sowerberry when the show opens in Backstage Theatre on Friday night week, April 4th, for a total of nine performances - running until Saturday April 12th.
Playing the leading role of Oliver is 13-year-old Jack Oates (see separate story on Page 41) and it promises to be a spectacular show which would not be possible to stage without the support of the generous sponsors.
Tickets for Oliver! are on sale and immediate booking is advised such is the big demand to see the show.
Booking through Backstage Theatre Box Office: 043-3347888 or online at www.backstage.ie
Tickets also available at Farrell Coy.


text:
Study Finds Link Between Heavy Use Of Digital Media And ADHD In Teens, But Questions Remain
Jul-18-2018, 06:20:15 GMT –Forbes - Tech
Concerns continue rising about how much time we're spending on our smartphones and the effects digital immersion is having on both who we are and what we're becoming. A new study adds to the uneasiness, suggesting that heavy use of digital media via smartphones and other devices is significantly linked to more symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among teens over time. Researchers monitored nearly 2,600 high school students, ages 15 and 16, over a two-year period and found that the heaviest users of digital media platforms were almost twice as likely to develop ADHD symptoms. The students reported how frequently they used 14 platforms, including social media, texting and streaming video, and the researchers used their responses to establish three categories of use: no use; medium use and high use. Assessments from the students about their levels of multiple ADHD symptoms were monitored every six months between 2014 and 2016 (from 10th grade to 12th grade).
attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, digital media, neurology, (18 more...)
Forbes - Tech
Jul-18-2018, 06:20:15 GMT
News, Technology Web Page
Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Psychiatry/Psychology (1.00)
Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Neurology > Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (1.00)
Information Technology > Communications > Mobile (0.77)
Information Technology > Communications > Social Media (0.55)
By text
By views
By concept tags