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Seven years after the events of Dragon Ball Z, Earth is at peace, and its people live free from any dangers lurking in the universe. However, this peace is short-lived; a sleeping evil awakens in the dark reaches of the galaxy: Beerus, the ruthless God of Destruction. Disturbed by a prophecy that he will be defeated by a "Super Saiyan God," Beerus and his angelic attendant Whis start searching the universe for this mysterious being. Before long, they reach Earth where they encounter Gokuu Son, one of the planet's mightiest warriors, and his similarly powerful friends.
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The Celestial Records speak of the existence of the "Seraphim," a race of divine beings who give blessings to humanity and are offered prayers by them in return. Those who are anointed with the ability to interact with these spirits are known as "Shepherds." Hailed as heroes for their prompt appearances in times of crisis,…
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When Subaru Natsuki leaves the convenience store, the last thing he expects is to be wrenched from his everyday life and dropped into a fantasy world. Things aren't looking good for the bewildered teenager; however, not long after his arrival, he is attacked by some thugs. Armed with only a bag of groceries and a now useless…
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On a quiet and peaceful day, the skies split open and extradimensional beings, designated as the Unknown, launch a swift and brutal attack against humanity. To protect the future of the country, all of Japan's children are cryogenically frozen until the end of the war to keep them out of harm's way. Several years pass,…
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Kazamatsuri, a modern, well-developed city renowned for its burgeoning greenery and rich Japanese culture, is home to Kotarou Tennouji, a high schooler least privy to the place's shared values. Content to fill his pockets with frivolity, the proud and nosey boy whiles away his time pestering the self-proclaimed delinquent…
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Q: Moment fromNow() but only to a certain point Is there a way to use Moment's fromNow() function but only to a certain point? I want to setup my script so it uses fromNow() until it exceeds 24 hours, and then I want it to display the full timestamp. What is the best way to achieve this?
moment.locale('en')
moment.tz('America/Los_Angeles')

let time = moment('2017-04-12T17:37:06.886Z').fromNow()

I wasn't able to locate any example in the Moment docs that would allow me to easily achieve this.

A: Better to write your custom fromNow function.
function myFromNow(time) {
  let now = moment();
  return now.isSame(time, 'day') ? time.fromNow() : time.format();
}

let time1 = moment('2017-04-12T17:37:06.886Z');
let time2 = moment('2018-10-12T17:37:06.886Z');

console.log(myFromNow(time1)); //2017-04-12T19:37:06+02:00
console.log(myFromNow(time2)); //in 5 hours

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Q: let $a,b,c >0 $ and $abc=1$,prove that $\sqrt{1+8a^2}+ \sqrt{1+8b^2}+ \sqrt{1+8c^2}\leq 3(a+b+c )$ let $a,b,c >0 $ and $abc=1$,prove that $\sqrt{1+8a^2}+ \sqrt{1+8b^2}+ \sqrt{1+8c^2}\leq 3(a+b+c )$
can anyone help me with this question.
i've tried to assume that $a\geq b \geq c $ as my teacher said,however i couldn't solve it

A: Let
$$ f(a,b,c)=3\sum_{cyc}a-\sum_{cyc}\sqrt{1+8a^2}.$$
Assuming that $a\geq b\geq c$, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives:
$$ f(a,b,c)\geq f(\sqrt{ab},\sqrt{ab},c)\tag{1}$$
hence it is sufficient to prove the inequality in the case $(a,b,c)=\left(x,x,\frac{1}{x^2}\right):$
$$ 3\left(2x+\frac{1}{x^2}\right)-2\sqrt{1+8x^2}-\sqrt{1+\frac{8}{x^4}}\geq 0,$$
$$ 3(2x^3+1)\geq 2x^2\sqrt{1+8x^2}+\sqrt{x^4+8}$$
$$ 1+36x^3-5x^4+4x^6 \geq 4x^2\sqrt{(1+8x^2)(8+x^4)}.\tag{2}$$
To prove $(2)$ it is sufficient to prove that for any $x\in\mathbb{R}^+$ we have:
$$ 1+72x^3 - 138x^4 + 2328 x^6 - 360 x^7 \geq 0 \tag{3}$$
or the still weaker:
$$ 12-23x+328x^3 \geq 0,$$
$$ f(x)=1-2x+27x^3 \geq 0,\tag{4}$$
that is trivial since that cubic polynomial has a negative discriminant, hence only one real root, and since $f(0)>0$ while $f(-1)<0$ that root is between $-1$ and $0$, so the cubic polynomial is positive over $\mathbb{R}^+$.

A: WLOG: let $c=\min{(a,b,c)}$,then we have $c\le 1$, use Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we have
$$\sqrt{8a^2+1}+\sqrt{8b^2+1}\le\sqrt{(a+b)\left(\dfrac{8a^2+1}{a}+\dfrac{8b^2+1}{b}\right)}=(a+b)\sqrt{c+8}$$
we only prove
$$(a+b)(3-\sqrt{c+8})\ge\sqrt{8c^2+1}-3c$$
use AM-GM inequality we have
$$(a+b)(3-\sqrt{c+8})\ge 2\sqrt{ab}(3-\sqrt{c+8})=\dfrac{2(3-\sqrt{c+8}}{\sqrt{c}}$$
we only prove
$$\dfrac{6}{\sqrt{c}}+3\sqrt{c}\ge 2\sqrt{c+8}+\sqrt{8c^2+1}$$
It is easy prove it

A: Let $a=e^x$, $b=e^y$ and $c=e^z$.
Hence, $x+y+z=0$ and we need to prove that $\sum\limits_{cyc}f(x)\geq0$, where
$f(x)=3e^x-\sqrt{1+8e^{2x}}$.
But $f''(x)>0$ for all $x>0$.
Thus, by Vasc's RCF Theorem it's enough to prove our inequality for $y=x$ and $z=-2x$
or the starting inequality for $b=a$ and $c=\frac{1}{a^2}$ and the rest is smooth.


We're just leaving France now after our winter of hibernating and goatkeeping in the country. It was an excellent beading retreat: comfy couch, bright light, and best of all, bad weather.
My goal for these three months was to learn new stitches and try to fashion glass seed beads into something that looked like fine jewelry. Hence, I only brought silver, gold, pearl and crystal beads, though I couldn't resist buying a few pastels after I got here.
First I learned herringbone and made a fine pearl and garnet cuff. It's a bit rough and asymmetrical, and if you do herringbone with round beads, the pattern is lost. I like it anyway.
My favorite was the sampler bracelet from Carole Rodgers' The Beaded Bracelet, which I had downloaded to my Kindle. (Can't travel with big beading books!) This bracelet is made of six strands, each in a different color and a different stitch, and I love the way they look. I made a Winter Bronze, an Easter Egg pastel, and a Starry Night. (Ran out of black beads with that one.) The pattern calls for cones at the ends, which I didn't have, but the new big-hole fake Pandora beads was a great way to hide the thread ends.
I went wacky for white at the Tout a Loisirs store in Paris, (Rue des Archives, if you're in the Marais) and bought white Indian beads with tiny mirrors. I actually dreamed a design for them (yes! In my sleep!), and made the necklace the next day. I'd like to make it more complicated, which I might do.
As the rain droned on, I downloaded a few more beading books and made the Marigold Fan earrings from Mastering Beadwork by Carole Huber Cypher. These copy an ancient design I've always been fond of. It was a challenge to lash beads to threads, and the threads are not invisible, but I'll keep working on it.
I also played with spiral and tubular peyote, and tore a lot of experiments apart to start over (this is required to do any learning!). I did save my dreadful attempt at a tiny peyote French flag, with its panels of red, white, and blue. Imagine how hard it would be make a perfect rectangle using seed beads which are all officially size 11, but vary in size anyway. These are good practice beads or texture beads, and I feel ready to move on to the pricier Japanese beads that are guaranteed uniform.
By the way, after I gave up on the peyote French flag, I found another way to suggest the flag by simply stacking the colors on a head pin. Hung on a chain along with a fleur de lis charm, it was a great gift for a new friend in France.
Okay, I'm almost home in Portland, the land of splendid bead shops, classes galore, art shows and festivals, and a beading community. Also I have beads of all sizes and colors waiting in my stash. New design adventures await!


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Q: Firebase, React: How do I display http errors on client side? I'm building a project with React and Firebase. I've split it into two repos - a backend repo for firebase functions, and a client-side repo for React. Part of my project involves user registration, and I want to be able to send any errors (eg, email already in use, weak password) to the client side, but I'm not sure how. Does anyone have suggestions about how I can pass backend errors to the client?
I know that I could move the firebase API call to client side which would make error handling much easier, but this would create complications.
Code as follows:
Registration component VenueRegister
import React from 'react'
import Header from './Header'
import TextField from '@material-ui/core/TextField';
import Button from '@material-ui/core/Button'
import axios from 'axios'
import { auth } from 'firebase/app'

class VenueRegister extends React.Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
        email: '',
        password:'',
        confirmPassword:'',
        venueName:'',
        venueAddress:''
    };
    this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this)
    this.handleSubmit = this.handleSubmit.bind(this)
  }

  handleChange(e){

      this.setState({
          [e.target.name]: e.target.value
      })
  }

  handleSubmit(e) {
    console.log("submit function reached");
    e.preventDefault();
    const venueData = {
      email: this.state.email,
      password: this.state.password,
      confirmPassword: this.state.confirmPassword,
      venueName: this.state.venueName,
      venueAddress: this.state.venueAddress
    };
    axios("http://localhost:5000/gig-fort/us-central1/api/registerVenue", {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "content-type": "application/json",
      },
      data: venueData,
    })
      .then((res) => {
        console.log(res.data);
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
      });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>

Register your venue

        <form onSubmit = {this.handleSubmit}>
          <TextField
            required
            id="standard-required"
            name = 'email'
            label="Required"
            defaultValue="email"
            placeholder="email"
            onChange = {this.handleChange}
          />
          <TextField
            required
            id="standard-required"
            name = 'password'
            label="Required"
            defaultValue="password"
            placeholder="password"
            onChange = {this.handleChange}
          />
          <TextField
            required
            id="standard-required"
            name = 'confirmPassword'
            label="Required"
            defaultValue="confirm password"
            placeholder="confirm password"
            onChange = {this.handleChange}
          />
          <TextField
            required
            id="standard-required"
            name = 'venueName'
            label="Required"
            defaultValue="venue name"
            placeholder="venue name"
            onChange = {this.handleChange}
          />
          <TextField
            required
            id="standard-required"
            name = 'venueAddress'
            label="Required"
            defaultValue="venue address"
            placeholder="venue address"
            onChange = {this.handleChange}
          />

    <Button type="submit">Submit</Button>
        </form>
      </>
    );
  }
}

export default VenueRegister

Backend function for venue registration:
app.post('/registerVenue',(req,res) =>{
    const newVenue = {
        email: req.body.email,
        password: req.body.password,
        confirmPassword: req.body.confirmPassword,
        venueName: req.body.venueName,
        venueAddress: req.body.venueAddress
    }

    let errors = {}

    if(isEmpty(newVenue.email)){
        errors.email = 'Email must not be empty'
    }else if (!isEmail(newVenue.email)){
        errors.email = 'must be a valid email address'
    }

    if(Object.keys(errors).length >0){
        return res.status(400).json(errors)
    }

    let token, userId
    db.doc(`/user/${newVenue.venueName}`).get()
    .then(doc => {
        if(doc.exists){
            return res.status(400).json({venueName: `This venue name is already taken`})
        } else {
            return firebase
            .auth()
            .createUserWithEmailAndPassword(newVenue.email, newVenue.password)
        }
    })
    .then(data=> {
        userId = data.user.uid;
        return data.user.getIdToken()
    })
    .then(idToken => {
        token = idToken
        const venueDetails ={
            email: newVenue.email,
            venueName: newVenue.venueName,
            venueAddress: newVenue.venueAddress,
            createdAt: new Date().toISOString(),
            userId
        }
        return db.doc(`/users/${newVenue.venueName}`).set(venueDetails)
    })
    .then(() => {
        return res.status(201).json({token})
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.error(err)
        if(err.code === 'auth/email-already-in-use'){
            return res.status(400).json({email: 'Email is already in use'})
        } else {
            return res.status(500).json({error:err.code})
        }
        //TODO: put in conditional statement that sends 'weak password error' to client
    })
})

A: In the frontend, when receiving the data from the backend, you should check your response data for errors. It is very likely you would want a util function for that since it is a common task across almost all requests (hence re-utilize).
So you would like to check the response.status and then set a new state like a hasError or something that will cause a re-render to your component and show, i.e, a child component that displays the error to the user and gives the ability to retry the operation.


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Dance Home
Understanding Dance
Making Dance
Dancing Through Time: Past, Present, Future
Dance in Canada:
A Rich & Varied Art
Dance Form
Ballet / Classical
Multi- and Interdisciplinary Dance
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1970s - present
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Western Europe & Africa
Related Artists:
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Eva von Gencsy
Winnipeg Ballet / Les Grands Ballets Canadiens / Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Hungarian-born Eva von Gencsy began her dance training at the Russian Academy in Budapest in the mid-1930s. Ten years later, she was a soloist at the Salzburg Landes Theatre. Shortly after immigrating to Canada in 1948, von Gencsy was hired to dance with the Winnipeg Ballet (later renamed the Royal Winnipeg Ballet). Her acting abilities and her technically strong dancing made her an audience favourite, particularly in roles such as the Lady Known as Lou in Gweneth Lloyd's The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1950).
In 1954, von Gencsy headed east to become the lead dancer for Les Ballets Chiriaeff, a dance group that appeared on television under the direction of Ludmilla Chiriaeff. The group was subsequently known as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (later renamed Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal). At the end of the 1950s, von Gencsy left Chiriaeff's company to concentrate on television work.
Von Gencsy fell in love with jazz dancing in the early 1960s and combined it with ballet in her own choreography to produce an aesthetic fusion. She taught this form at The Banff School of Fine Arts (later renamed The Banff Centre) and in Montréal before co-founding the company Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (later renamed bjm_danse) in 1972.
Von Gencsy served as the company's artistic director and resident choreographer for seven years. Thanks to the work of von Gencsy and company co-founders and colleagues, Eddy Toussaint and Geneviève Salbaing, a ballet jazz dance craze overtook Montréal and other cities in Québec during the 1970s and 1980s. At its height, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal had over 3000 students and five schools.
Von Gencsy was instrumental in popularizing the ballet jazz style internationally. She was commissioned to choreograph solos for members of the Paris Opera Ballet, which they performed at the prestigious dance competition in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1978.
Among her awards, von Gencsy received a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for excellence in the arts in 1977.
Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal
Howe-Beck, Linde. "Eva von Gencsy." Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada/Encyclopédie de la Danse théâtrale au Canada. Ed. Susan Macpherson. Toronto: Dance Collection Danse Press/es, 2000: 611-613.

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British literature, classics from the 19th and 20th century will be the focus of this course. In this course you will have the opportunity to read and research two novels selected from a list of classics and will be encouraged to prepare to teach one of these novels. While the course may be most appropriate for secondary teachers, those who teach other levels may also enjoy the satisfaction that comes from reading great literature.


E-commerce is one of the fastest-growing areas in the modern economy. Not only is it important for businesses to have websites, those websites must be as user-friendly as possible if they are to function as sales tools.
The old days, when websites were looked upon as simply another form of advertising, are long gone. Websites have grown to become vital marketing, customer service and sales platforms.
Any website that provides online business transactions must make those transactions as easy as possible for the customer. An e-commerce site should be user-friendly. It must be both interactive and useful to the customer. While it's a good idea to have an attractive eye catching site, aesthetics can only go so far. The site that sells the most will be the site that customers find useful and easy to use.
The website's homepage must be centered around the user and should duplicate the shopping experience as far as is practical. Remember that a user cannot hold an online product in his or her hand, so it is vitally important to be as detailed as possible. Online images should offer a zoom capability and product descriptions should not only be detailed they should also offer explanations or statements clarifying any common area of concern that customers may have. This is vitally important. This may seem like a lot but you can keep the site from being cluttered with text by addressing specifics.
Never treat your website as simply an online catalog. Remember that the internet is all about communication. All text on the site should be helpful and clarifying. It should be written as if you are having an over the counter conversation with your customer. Of course, this means knowing your customers needs and wants even before the customer reaches your site, or at least having a pretty good idea. There are a number of sources for customer information, from surveys to customer feedback and forums where potential customers congregate. And it's a very good idea to have a dedicated chat function right on your site, where customers can have their problems addressed and questions answered in real time.
Also keep your navigational architecture simple and straightforward. Make it easy to move from page to page without getting lost. Don't clutter your home page with links, offer a good search engine instead, one that enables the customer to drill down from the general to the specific and doesn't require the customer to have detailed product knowledge in order to find what he or she is looking for.
Make the checkout process easy. Don't require more information than is necessary and put all information, such as shipping cost, right up front. It's okay to offer a signup form to make later purchases easier, but this should be optional.
And finally, but most importantly, you should test your site with potential customers, ideally before the site goes live. Customer experience testing is vital. It can save you a lot of grief and there's no substitute for user testing if you want a friendly e-commerce site.


Thousands of years ago, in the pre monarchic era, sacred plants and other entheogenic substances where politically correct and highly respected for their ability to bring forth the divine, Yahweh, God, The Great Spirit, etc., by the many cultures who used them. Often the entire tribe or community would partake in the entheogenic rites and rituals. These rites were often used in initiation into adulthood, for healing, to help guide the community in the decision process, and to bring the direct religious experience to anyone seeking it. In the pre literate world, the knowledge of psychedelic sacraments, as well as fertility rites and astronomical knowledge surrounding the sun, stars, and zodiac, known as astrotheology, were anthropomorphized into a character or a deity; consequently, their stories and practices could easily be passed down for generations. Weather changes over millenniums caused environmental changes that altered the available foods and plant sacraments available in the local vicinity. If a tribe lost its shamanic El-der (El – God), all of the tribe's knowledge of their plant sacraments as well as astronomical knowledge would be lost. The Church's inquisitions extracted this sacred knowledge from the local Shamans who were then exterminated…It is time to recognize the fact that this Pharmacratic Inquisition is still intact and destroy it.
Is Scientology Above The Law?


A book with lots of information about etchings of Rembrandt, the technique and the history of the house. In addition to his extensive oeuvre of paintings and drawings Rembrandt van Rijn also produced around 290 prints. The Rembrandthouse Museum owns about 250 of his prints. His mastery in his field is undisputed; he is generally acknowledged as one of the great etchers - if not the greatest - of all time. Rembrandt acquired a European reputation in his own lifetime precisely because of his graphic work which, because it could be reproduced, was much more widely seen than his paintings or drawings. Rembrandt's free use of line, the unique deep black of many of his etchings and his masterly use of the drypoint were very popular, and his work was much sought after by the many print collectors of the time.


This entry was posted in Hoosier Hikes and tagged family hikes, hikes for everyone, hikes in indiana, Hiking, hoosier hikes, outdoors Indiana, rail trails, Southern indiana, walking.
Lovely! I spent a day of my Indiana visit at nearby Brown County. Always nice to explore those Hoosier trails!


Mealtime is one of the most important aspects of the day, and this remains true for residents in retirement living and long-term care. Many factors affect the mealtime experience including the food that is served, the atmosphere of the dining room, and interactions with team members and tablemates. This short, 14-question tool to determine how residents feel about some of these factors, and whether they are satisfied with their overall mealtime experience.
The questionnaire can be self-completed by residents or a volunteer may be needed to interview residents and record their responses.
After collecting completed questionnaires, tally up the responses. Count how many people responded "Most of the Time" for each question. To get a percentage, divide the total count by the total number of people who completed the survey and multiply by 100. For example, if 20 out of 50 residents responded "Most of the Time", then 20/50 x 100 = 40% of residents selected "Most of the Time" for that question.
After you've tallied the results, use the following as a general guide to help you read the results and identify areas that are going well or areas that may need some work.
>80% responded "Most of the Time" = No action is needed, keep up the great work!
>80% responded "Rarely" = No action is needed, keep up the great work!
It is also important to look at the comments provided on the questionnaires, as these can be helpful in understanding why a certain response was given.
PLEASE NOTE: This questionnaire is meant to help you understand residents' mealtime satisfaction and identify possible opportunity areas, it is not an objective measure but is to be used as a guide and a place to start conversations about improving the mealtime experience for residents in retirement and/or long-term care.
This questionnaire was developed by Heather Keller, Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging.


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Archive for the 'local Wicklow politics' Category
Wicklow towns roads
(Wicklow, Fine Gael)
Wicklow County Council has been given €850,000 to maintain its roads in 2010. With three weeks gone in the year and 49 weeks to go, I estimate that between €500,000 and €600,000 of that annual fund has been spent already. One of today's newspapers reported that approximately €150 million – I imagine that was an educated guess – is needed to repair the damage done to this country's roads in recent times. That equates to an average of approximately €4 million for each affected local authority. It is encouraging that the Minister of State from the capital city is present in the Chamber. It seems that his senior colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who represents a neighbouring constituency, did not take this crisis seriously until it started to affect the city. As my colleagues have said, road infrastructure is the key to road safety. It is also the key to attracting investment, business and tourism. It is right that the road from the hotel in Glendalough to the upper lake car park was repaired last Sunday to make the road passable. However, another section of road not too far away, which is used for access by a milk lorry, was not repaired. If something positive is to come out of all of this, it is that local employment will have to be created as money is spent locally to repair our roads. If this is not addressed, we will have no road infrastructure in 12 months' time.
Nice one Andrew, However I would argue that the roads in the town's would need to be given priority as the car repair business is booming and workers cannot afford the constant repairs .This week alone I had to fork out 550 Euros for wheel Barings and the garage man tells me it was because of the various pot holes in and around the Abby street and Marlton road junction in Wicklow Town
Collecting my children from school is lethal as the potholes are getting bigger and bigger (near the Wicklow Montessori school) also outside the Abby National school
The whole road needs to be urgently resurfaced (Dublin Road & Abby Road ,Wicklow Town)
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Irish Live Register
Irish Live Register: Rises 3,300 to 426,700 in December; 133,577 added in 2009; Unemployment rate still set to peak in summer 2010
Source: CSO
Taken from Finfacts Team
Jan 8, 2010 – 12:30:04 PM
Irish Live Register: The seasonally adjusted Live Register total increased from 423,400 in November to 426,700 in December, an increase of 3,300, according to the CSO. In 2009 there was an unadjusted increase in the Live Register of 133,577(+46.1%). This compares with an increase of 119,642 (+70.2%) in 2008. The unemployment rate still set to peak in summer 2010.
January of this year has represented the spike in claimant increases in any month, with a record 33,000, or 11.3%, rise – – 26,700 additions in February, 20,000 in March; 15,800 in April; 13,500 in May; 11,400 in June; 10,500 in July; 5,400 in August and 600 in September.
The total fell 3,000 in October. and rose 900 in November.
There was an annual increase of 88,273 (+45.4%) in the number of males on the Live Register in 2009 and a corresponding increase of 45,304 (+47.5%) in the number of females.
I have being unemployed since January last year 2009
I was told at the Dole office as I was self-employed for the past few years I was not entitled to any state benefits, no Jobseekers allowance, and I did not need to register every week.
so go and don't bother us again attitude !
Since I do not qualify for the jobseekers allowance, it would appear that I do not show up as unemployed in the CSO stats.
So now extrapolate this fact to the approximately 65, 000 thousand or so other X self-employed people. Who lost their self support means they had.
These would be chippies, electricians, brick layers and people who have lost their own businesses
And you begin to get the real unemployment figures.
Like every other government in the world this government is fiddling the real figures
I would estimate the real unemployment figures are close to 536,000 Thousand.
The greatest scam is that I paid all my taxes and paid into the PRSI, I also paid all taxes for my staff and I end up with no entitlements!
The lesson here is don't set up yourself in Business in Ireland
Just go out and try to get a job in the public service
There are approximately 360,000 thousand lucky people already looked after for life.
But if you take in the now subsidized financial sector, and the thousands of guanos and advisers
We must be looking at 600.000 thousand plus.
Every time you here someone talking about the good job the government is doing just ask the question who is paying their salaries, inevitably it is the taxpayers!
Nothing is going to change for the Unemployed unless they get out on to the streets and take action themselves
Join the union for the unemployed
Demand jobs now and not empty promises
Join the CAB to-day
Sign up and demand an emergency jobs creation and up-skilling program for the unemployed to-day!
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Give us jobs, results, not SoundBits!
The Government is busy telling us, they must fix the banking system first and then the finances of the country
This is all well and dandy but what about the likes of the hundreds of thousands of people like me who are unemployed?
Mr Cowen got up in the Dail yesterday and told the people that FAS was delivering courses for the unemployed. This is not what my personal experience shows
FAS was to do a course on web design ,starting on Sep 28th ,I applied for this course in February ,I heard nothing until I complained about the lack of information to FAS and I was called to an assessment exam just two weeks before the course was to begin
Here I was told that the course I was supposed to attend was no longer available; it was cancelled just like that
The FAS teacher went on to tell approximately 28 other people in the class that FAS was cancelling many more courses because of their budget problems
We were then told that the original course was now just 12 weeks (instead of 37 weeks ) and that the modules that were taken out were now included in the new requirements all candidates would have to have to attend the NEW 12 week course
All they did was to cut the original course from 37 weeks to 12 weeks to save money
Needless to say I was not successful in getting on to the new course because of these late changes!
I have heard from FAS in the last week informing me of a part time course again which is of no use to me as it will not result in me getting any job
What a Joke cutting courses when they should be putting on more courses that have real job's prospects at the end of such courses
We need Jobs and not time wasting courses that are just filling in the rhetoric of out of touch politicians
An educated, available workforce, is more likely to be offered jobs
We need up skilling and re-education as a matter of national emergency
Where do we fit into your National Emergency Plan???
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Wicklow TD's are big spenders
Wicklow TD's are big spenders when it comes to expenses 419,327.00 s Euros
With the growing number of Wicklow voters being dumped on to the dole queues like my-self and told that we are not eligible to any dole payments or any other social security payments after paying into the tax coffers for 35 years, and never having darkened the door step of a dole office before, it is a hard thing to swallow this extravagance in allowances for our well healed TD's
I wont waste time calling for any explanations from our local servants of the people.
But you must agree that when the people that are supposed to be serving you in the Dail and that are supposed to be servants of the people are living way beyond the level of ordinary people there has to be something very wrong !
I call on the voters to now demand that any would be TD's in the next general election declare that they will work for the average industrial wage and if not they will not get your vote and further more I propose that all able persons to stand for the general election against existing TD's that refuse to make available to the local communities a complete listing of their expenses
I am offering to post any such information on this blog for free anytime
I call on all the Wicklow TD's to publish their entire expenses for their term to date!and to do so every month from now on
Lets see what happens above race results were again
1 st place: Billy Timmins FG at 120,685 Euros
2nd place: Andrew Doyle FG at 113,572 Euros
3rd place Joe Behan IND at 90,717 Euros
4th place Liz McManus Lab at 76,503 Euros
Last Place Dick Roche FF at 17,850 Euros
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SPEECH BY JOAN BURTON TD
This is a speech made by Joan Burton last week
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Spokesperson on Finance
To Humbert Summer School, Ballina, Co May0
Friday, August 21st, 2009
NOT FOR USE BEFORE 11.30AM
NAMA A MONUMENT TO GREED THAT CREATED CRISIS
I'm sure you all remember a great poem from Leaving Cert English. Shelley's Ozymandias sonnet tells the tale of a traveler who came across a vast derelict statue in a far off desert.
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert
The words on the pedestal tell the story of Ozymandias his ambitions and his destructive folly.
I mention this because Ireland is today littered with monuments to similar folly and the delusions of the past decade. As part of the NAMA process we are likely to take into public ownership many properties, hotels, apartment blocks and office blocks of little or no value.
Perhaps NAMA will choose to hold on to some and erect a plaque to remind a future generation of the greed that created the situation we now face with the NAMA Bill.
That Bill will be a critical test of our political institutions.
I wish I could say to you here that every clause will be scrutinized with care. That is unlikely. Take the Bank Guarantee. I recall going for a briefing to the Department of Finance. I suggested a few amendments that might impose some limits on taxpayer exposure only to be told that the Government would not accept any amendment.
The role of the Dáil was to rubber stamp the Bill and no other.
It would be intolerable if that same attitude prevailed next month.
The NAMA Bill rests on one particular clause Section 58 which sets out the rules for valuing the bank loans. It is a shoddy piece of work that does no credit to the Minister.
It could hardly be otherwise as Brian Lenihan is attempting, like Janus of the ancient Roman myth, to show two faces to the world looking in opposite directions.
One face is the Minister who needs to insist on the protection of the public interest. So the clause sets out current market value, however diminished, as a principle. That is what the former Swedish Minister Mr Lundgren recommended in his evidence to the Finance Committee. The results from AIB and the evidence presented in some of the High Court cases show just how heavy a discount is properly called for.
But Minister Lenihan also presents a different Janus face, reflected in a second basis of valuation contained in Section 58, a potentially bogus concept called Long Term Economic Value, which is the convenient cover he and Mr. Cowen use for a policy to pay way over the odds for the banks' dodgiest loans on the pretext that the assets so acquired have an enduring value that is not reflected in the current market. That is political and economic mumbo jumbo.
I cannot believe that Dáil Eireann will pass so flawed a clause as section 58. Surely there are Cabinet Ministers who have qualms. Surely there are FF and Green backbenchers who will baulk at the shocking abdication of public interest that is inherent in Section 58.
This is the coming test of our parliamentary institutions:
To fight or to abdicate on Section 58.
To abdicate responsibility and to allow this clause to stand is to abandon the legislative role of the TD and to install a Cowen –Lenihan parliamentary dictatorship that is allowed to rule by decree without scrutiny or amendment.
Section 58 cannot pass proper scrutiny. It fails every test. Long Term Economic Value as defined in this section merits the exact words, 'fanciful' and ' lacking in reality' used by Judge Kelly in rejecting Liam Carroll's application last week.
The discount to be applied by NAMA has to reflect the current reality. Any consideration of future value has to be postponed till conditions in the economy generate such value. I can appreciate Professor Honahan's suggestion that banks could share in any future value when the State has recovered its costs in full. But the evidence remains overwhelming that nationalization remains the safest policy as it does not require early valuations to be placed on the transfer of loans which would be between different public bodies. Mr. Lundgren emphasised this aspect on his visit to Dublin last month and it has a compelling logic that deserves greater public debate as an alternative to the gaping flaws of the entire NAMA set up.
There are many other reforms that could make our political institutions fit for purpose.
I believe we should open up the election of Ceann Comhairle.
I think we should look at the new procedures at Westminster for the election of the Speaker. It was a secret ballot and each nominee had to demonstrate some measure of cross party support in order to stand. In other words the office of Speaker is not in the gift of the ruling party.
I think it should be possible to allow a genuine Private Member's initiative to get to the floor of the Dáil. If a TD can demonstrate a significant degree of interest in a public interest proposal with some evidence of cross party backing then time should be available to debate such an idea and if it commands a second stage majority it should get committee stage examination.
I served on the Public Accounts Committee and came to admire the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG). I want to suggest an extension to his mandate. The USA has the Congressional Budget Office that does independent evaluations of spending proposals. Our C and AG can only report after the event. The mandate should be extended to enable a mandatory evaluation of cost to be tabled with every new proposal. We have bitter experience of rabbits out of hats on budget days that turn out to cost way in excess of what was first indicated. The decentralization fiasco is a case in point as is the 2002 announcement of the medical cards for the over 70s which came with a cost tag that did not reflect in any way the true ultimate cost. An extension to the C and AGs function could do that job as long as it was mandatory. It should also cover regular policy audits to see if the stated objectives of particular policies have been met.
We could also borrow another procedure from the US Congress. I refer to the rule that certain public appointments be subject to committee scrutiny and vote. The Office of C and AG, the appointment of Ombudsman are already subject to a Dáil vote but this is a formal process. I want the nominees to face a polite but thorough interview. The offices I have in mind, apart from the two I just mentioned, are Financial Regulator, Central Bank Governor, Chair of the proposed Election Commission and certainly the Chair of NAMA.
My party has long demanded a new law to protect whistleblowers. No institutional reform would be complete without such a measure. The Freedom of Information Act has proved its worth beyond measure and a new Government committed to reform will extend its scope and restore most of the sections that were deleted by FF in 2003.
Eamon Gilmore has already indicated his determination to overhaul the laws on election spending, on the disclosure of donations and limits on the size of donations. The present law is a joke. Millions were spent in 2002 and 2007 but the two big parties disclosed no donations above the threshold for disclosure. SIPO has drawn attention to this and I repeat here that Labour will insist on far reaching changes.
Political lobbying is a secret world that needs to be opened out and examined. One simple reform would be a register of lobbyists and I support that as a first step. It gets more difficult then but that is no reason to avoid the issue in a deeper way.
When does a pleasant lunch cross the line between a social occasion and a lobbying exercise? Even I was invited to have breakfast with the board of AIB, a strictly tea and toast affair, I assure you. Did my two cups of tea (the toast had run out by the time the plate reached me) constitute an AIB lobby of the Labour Party?
Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan describe an episode in their book on developers. They report an annual lunch organised by a leading auctioneer where Brian Cowen as Minister for Finance could meet the big players among Ireland's developers while the Budget was in preparation. The venue was a private dining room in the Radisson Hotel on Merrion Road.
Ostensibly it was a social function with no purpose other than to eat, drink and be merry among friends. Equally one can assume these hard nosed businessmen (there are no women at these events) took the opportunity to let the Minister know what they would like to happen on the policy front in any Budget or Finance Bill that was in the offing.
Now how could you describe that event? Is it lobbying or is it lunch? It certainly wasn't a free lunch. Mc Donald and Sheridan report that one participant had to write a cheque for €5000 to FF soon afterwards.
As a Sean O'Casey character might say, there's lobbying and there's lobbying.
Lobbying is one of the dark arts of influence peddling. We need to know more about it and to have stricter rules.
We have had 12 years of tribunals and still we don't have a modern enforceable Anti Corruption Law. Amazingly even people who were named by Judge Flood in 2002 for corrupt payments and tax evasion, have never been disqualified as company directors let alone face more serious penalties. It beggars belief that this Government has done nothing to update the law on corruption, the penalties for corruption, the criminal procedures and the standard of proof required to secure conviction. Such a law, in my view, is a basic requirement of political reform.
May I briefly return to NAMA.
'I have been reading remarks by Simon Johnson, a former IMF official with long experience of economic crises. This is what he has to say:
the real concern of the fund's senior staff, and the biggest obstacle to recovery, is almost invariably the politics of countries in crisis. Typically, these countries are in a desperate economic situation for one simple reason—the powerful elites within them over-reached in good times and took too many risks'.
Sounds familiar.
So how does the IMF judge a Government's resolve?
The IMF staff looks into the eyes of the Minister of Finance and decides whether the government is serious. The fund will give a country a loan but first it wants to make sure the Minister is ready, willing, and able to be tough on some of his friends. If he is not ready to throw former pals to the wolves, the IMF can wait.
I wonder how an IMF team would judge the capacity of this set of Ministers to face down their old cronies. Would a serious IMF team look at Brian Cowen in the eye and see there a man with the resolve with the determination to show his former friends the door.
Well would he? I think we all know the answer to that. It might have to come to that eventually but first this Government has a mindset that the plain people of Ireland are to be the first in the firing line, the children of Ireland are to be the target of cuts in welfare, in education, in health care before any effort is made to face down the elite that has been the favoured recipient of public largesse, of tax breaks, of easy tax exile status, of Cinderella rules, of public contracts.
ENDS CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
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An open letter to all the TD's of Ireland
This latest attempt to bypass earlier supreme court's judgment on this matter is an abuse of the process of the court and no ordinary member of the public could have even dreamed of getting away with this typical stroke,
that could have being dreamed up in the back rooms of the Fiannia Fall mafia ridden lenster house!
Since Mr. Liam Carroll has now got the right decision (the one he wants) from the courts there is now a good chance that we the taxpayers in the country will have to foot the bill for his debts!
there has never being a better example of one law for the rich in this country and one law for the poor ,the people that have lost their homes during this week and all that will lose their homes in the months to come
We the ordinary people must not let this corrupt system walk all over us
This decision makes a mockery of the rule of law and questions the whole notion of equality within the Irish legal system, and the Irish regulation of its financial system!
It is no better that a binNAMA republic!
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Please note I have no affiliation to this group !
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News from Mr. John Gormley, T.D
Dear Mr Clarke ,
I have been asked by Mr. John Gormley, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to refer to your recent email in connection with river pollution
I apologise for the delay in replying to your previous e-mail on this matter.
A further email on this matter will issue as soon as possible.
Eddie Kiernan
Private Secretary
Dear Mr. John Gormley
I am writing to you again to let you know that nothing has happened with the
problem we have with the river in our estate and as you can see with the
latest video the pollution is still ongoing
I sent this e- mail to the local council again
Dear Sir or Madam
Please follow the link below and take a look at the environmental damage
that is been done to the river in our estate
This pollution is now going on for the last 16 years and in spite of
complaining so many times nothing has happened to stop this pollution
This is again to remind you of the constant damage we have to put up with
Please find the source of this pollution and prosecuted those responsible
Thomas Clarke
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Above reply received to-day 17.08.2009 from Mr. John Gormley, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
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A few of the photos that I took on the grounds of the beautiful Huntington Library in San Marino, CA..
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Home » A discourse of Peters life, peregrination and death Wherein is plainely prooued by the order of time and place that Peter was neuer at Rome. Also an interpretation vpon the second Epistle of S. Paule to the Thessalonians the second chapter. (1580) by Christopher Carlile
A discourse of Peters life, peregrination and death Wherein is plainely prooued
the order of time and place that Peter was neuer at Rome. Also an interpretation vpon the second Epistle of S. Paule to the Thessalonians the second chapter. (1580) by Christopher Carlile
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Impatient Optimist
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Our Espresso On Tap right now is Sweet Orchard. It's also available Whole Bean at the shop.
This sweet springtime espresso is an amazing three bean blend. The base of this coffee hails from Flores Bajawa, a small Indonesian island. This is joined with smallholder and estate farm selections from Ethiopia and Guatemala. All coffee were roasted separately and then post-blended to increase the complexity.
In the cup it's mango and smooth caramel with sweet jasmine and apple highlights. A welcome springtime treasure!


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「信長茶寮」京都・本能寺跡にオープン! / Nobunaga Themed Café Opens on Honnoji Site.
Nobunaga Themed Café Opens on Honnoji Site.
Nobunaga Curry, and Nobunaga Last Supper on the menu.
below the ground is available, and said to represent the water used by tea master Sen no Rikyu.
A gold leaf folding screen of Azuchi Castle, and part of the charred wood of the original Honnno-ji are on display inside too.The new café is expected to be popular with male and female history buffs, and fans of the popular Naobinaga.


Australia loses approximately 30 per cent of teachers in their first five years of teaching. Vast amounts of taxpayer money and resources are wasted on training teachers who will leave the profession, without considering what would make them stay.
To date, research has addressed the reasons teachers are leaving, including burnout, workload pressures, physical isolation, and disillusionment. We also know from research studies that induction and mentoring programs can help. However, these programs are often removed after one or two years so do not support the teacher long-term.
Our research shows something else is making a difference.
With fellow researchers Kate Coleman, Maurizio Toscano and Sarah Healy, we have been involved in a longitudinal research study following early career secondary teachers who maintain a practice in their subject area. These are teachers who 'do what they teach', such as the art teacher who makes art on weekends or the science teacher who takes photographs of their garden for their biology class. They are practitioner-teachers who work, research and educate in their fields, and perceive the quality of their teaching as being enhanced by their practising in the field.
We have found that early career teachers who 'do what they teach' and see themselves as being good quality teachers also have higher expectations of remaining in teaching. This could be a crucial element in keeping our teachers beyond those first five years.
"[I've participated] each year since my graduation because to me it is important continue my connections with past students of Melbourne University and Master of Teaching as well as with the staff… I am very much a dedicated and professional artist and wish to share and connect with other graduate artists" (TAP 2017 research participant).
"Everything I do in my practice affects my teaching because it provides me with more insight, which transfers into for example, empathy with the students as they make work. I believe that any accumulation of knowledge shifts who we are, even if very subtly and would therefore change who we are and what we have to offer, as a teacher" (TAP 2017 research participant).
Art educators from the University of British Columbia in Canada, Rita Irwin and Donal O'Donoghue suggest that "preparing secondary school art specialists is not just about preparing educators for teaching art, it is also about artists preparing to teach and artists preparing to produce art while teaching". Art teachers in this Canadian study reveal the difference that practitioner inquiry made in their professional practice, their understanding of student learning, their content area knowledge, and their career trajectories.
Our longitudinal study joins the extensive work by visual art researchers to help inform a wider conversation about teachers becoming active practitioners.
Our work with the Teacher As Practitioner study is evolving to become an examination of how practitioner inquiry impacts professional practice, school culture, and career trajectories of teachers across other disciplines. We are looking to embrace the use of complexity and network theories to understand how practitioner inquiry is able to create its ripple effect, and are seeking greater use of testimonies from educators with experience as inquirers. Our study is extending its scope to include practices from other school settings, classroom and leadership roles, general education and specialist settings. Teacher As Practitioner is not only working across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but also across the arbitrary distinction between practice and theory.
Over the past two years we have begun the process of examining if and how the idea of practice, as elucidated from the experiences of early career art teachers as practitioners in our study, might also apply to early career science teachers as practitioners.
In many ways early career teachers in the sciences encounter issues not unlike art practitioners. For instance in the way they negotiate that continuous movement that spans their disciplinary training, their practice within the community defined by that discipline, their experiences of learning about and enacting the teaching of that discipline, and how this comes to define who they are in the space of teaching. Do these roles and disciplinary identities overlap? Is the actual day-to-day work of each very different? The context, audience and purpose dramatically shift away from the teacher, to the artist or scientist students and to other practitioners in each role.
We are looking at how spaces like the studio and the laboratory play a role in negotiating practice across a lifetime – bearing in mind that such spaces are very often shared with colleagues, students, outsiders, peers, mentors, family, friends, and others. Thus, the research is likely to inform other explorations and inquiries into the disciplinary and trans-disciplinary practices of teachers, and their relationships to education, professional life and identity, and community, amongst other things.
We are exploring the potential for other learning areas to also be included in TAP in the future.
As TAP has continued to shift in recent years, significant changes in the team structure of the project has resulted in new ways of exploring the phenomena that is TAP.
It is no longer seen as a project, but rather a methodological approach to teaching teachers in both institutional programs, and supporting their early careers as a community of practice. TAP has become (necessarily) an entangled force in initial teacher education at Melbourne Graduate School of Education and inEdith Cowan University's visual arts & design learning areas.
Since 2010, TAP's longitudinal research design has explored the hypothesis that maintaining an early career teacher's personal practice in the discipline in which they were trained and now teach, increases the quality of their teaching, as well as their expectations of remaining in the workforce. This can be a powerful influence for anyone embarking on a career in teaching.
Evidence points to the quality of teaching as the most significant factor in improving student learning outcomes according to John Hattie, Chairman of the Australian Institute for Teaching and school Leadership (AITSL). Evidence also supports the view that efforts to understand and promote the retention of early career teachers beyond approximately five years in the workforce are an international concern. Hence TAP's significance in addressing Australia's need for quality teachers, and its need to keep teachers practising positively in both the classroom and also in the school, during and beyond the critical early years after graduation.
Being a practitioner-teacher doesn't mean you need to maintain an onerous professional practice in your subject area, but it does mean actively engaging in the subject beyond your expectations of being a teacher. We know workload for teachers can be one of the forces that drive early career teachers to quit, so our TAP intervention promotes supported participation in just one exhibition or exposition per year.
Producing just one artwork or subject output per year can enhance a teacher's perceptions of the quality of their teaching and therefore significantly affect whether they see themselves as continuing with their teaching career.
Teacher As Practitioner intervention is low-cost and effective. It could yet be the solution to the teacher exodus here in Australia, and internationally.
Julia Morris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Course Coordinator for Visual Arts Education (Secondary) at Edith Cowan University, and an Honorary Fellow with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests include engagement and evaluation in applied education research, with an emphasis on developing and utilising evidence-based measures to improve educational practice. Since 2015 she has secured over $500,000 in research funding, has published over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference publication, research reports and has had numerous non-traditional research outputs. She is currently supervising eight higher degree by research students, with a specific focus on supporting students to apply research methodologies in innovative ways within educational research.
Wesley Imms is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, is the Head of Visual Art Education, and the Research Higher Degree Coordinator for Curriculum and Teaching. He is the lead Chief Investigator of the ARC Linkage Project Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change which will run from 2016-2019. He has been involved in a range of solo and collaborative projects since 2000 involving approximately $11 million of external funding, has published over 70 peer reviewed articles, chapters, conference papers and books, numerous reports and invited lectures here and overseas. He is an experienced educator and is involved in teaching subjects spanning visual art curriculum and studio practice, innovative learning spaces, and Masters-level learning spaces capstone and teacher/practitioner subjects, in addition to supervising 19 Doctoral, Master of Education/Philosophy and Master of Teaching honours theses.
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I like your idea of subject-based communities of practice. This is not the only way CoPs can operate, but there are particular advantages in having teachers with a similar subject background collaborate. Love the idea of teacher as practitioner!
Thansk Bernadette! Yes, not the only way for them to operate, but it is certainly proving effective for this sample!
I see a real connection here with history teachers. Those who maintain an interest in history beyond the requirements of their teaching have more passion and energy, and a discipline specific community of practice is a must. Australia's next educational horizon needs to be valuing and continually developing discipline expertise in our teachers.
Thanks Deb! It's great to hear evidence of the history teacher practitioner. We would love to extend this project across learning areas to see how it applies in different disciplines.
Unfortunately, there's no evidence that we lose 30% of early career teachers in the first 5 years in Australia. We simply don't know. Which is frustrating, because it would be useful to have a means to test to what extent our supports of early career teachers help in terms of retention.
We agree Paul. The figure of 30% is something that is alive and well in terms of discourse on teacher retention, but the 'true' figure is very much unknown. Like all education research, there are so many confounding variables that make this a difficult issue to measure effectively!
Great article. As an ancient history teacher, I think authenticity in the classroom is paramount. I recently had the opportunity to participate in an archaeological dig as part of Uni Tasmania's field school. Not only did I learn more about archaeology, but I feel I have the authority and authenticity to stand in the classroom and teach it. I am very interested in following how this project might be extended into the history learning area. I'm also going to discuss this idea of TAP at a staff meeting.
Thanks Amanda! Your archaeological experience sounds amazing! It is interesting to hear your views on authenticity. We have heard it many times from participants in TAP, where their students afford them a different type of respect that stems from acknowledging their authentic engagement in the discipline. Please let us know what happens at the staff meeting! We'd love to hear what is happening in schools.


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Ramadan is the month in which Allāh revealed the Qur'an to His most noble and chosen Messenger. It is a month filled with innumerable blessings, mercies, and bounties. It is the month where the Muslims recite the Qur'an throughout the day and night, and re-introduce themselves to the Prophet who carried the Words of Allah in his chest and spread its wisdom to humanity through beauty, compassion, and majestic brilliance. Allah made it a month of mercy, forgiveness, du'a and multiplied rewards. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said "On the first night of the month of Ramadan, the devils are chained, the jinn are restrained, and the gates of Hell are closed and none of its gates are opened. The gates of Paradise are opened and none of its gates are closed. A caller announces: 'O seeker of good, come near! O seeker of evil, stop short! Allah will save them from the Hellfire and that is during every night of Ramadan'." (Tirmidhi) Ramadan is a perfect time for all of us who have transgressed against our own souls to reconnect to our Merciful Lord.
Our Master 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas said, "The Messenger of Allah was the most generous of people and he was the most generous in the month of Ramadan." (Bukhari) This is a period of open-heartedness and generosity. It is a period of kindness and compassion. It is a period of joy and happiness. The one who meets this month with an open heart shall be shown generosity by Allah. He shall have his heart filled with purity, his soul filled with light and his akhira enveloped in felicity.
Seminar to Cover:
• Types of Fasts
• Conditions, essentials, sunnahs & etiquettes of fasts
• Reprehensible acts & nullifiers of fasts
• Making up for missed fasts and their types
• The Fiqh of Iti'kaf
• Objectives of Fasting
• Importance of protecting the limbs from sin
• The categories of those who fast and their ranks with Allāh
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Family Of Suicide Taxi Driver, Puts Up Charity Billboard In Welling
A family from Welling has turned their grief into action after their father took his own life, by helping other men suffering from mental illness.
Joey Barton, a black cab driver, was just 57 years old when he committed suicide on June 23 of this year. His funeral took place on July 19.
After his death, his ex-wife Christine, and their two children, Sam and Chloe, wanted to do something to honour his memory.
"We were absolutely devastated. We never thought it would happen," Christine told News Shopper.
She describes her ex-husband as "very sociable" with "lots of friends," which left people shocked and confused when they found out he had died.
At his funeral, a friend who worked alongside Joey on the taxi circuit said he "could not comprehend" the idea he had killed himself.
Just a week before he died, the pair had been "laughing, joking and having a bit of banter."
Since Joey's death, Christine told News Shopper she and her children "did not want to sweep it under the carpet," and, said they wanted to address the issue of suicide rates in men.
So, instead of collecting for flowers at his funeral, Joey's family asked mourners to donate to a gofundme page set up on behalf of the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), which works to prevent suicide.
After fundraising and liaising with the charity, and with a bit of help from Christine's experience in marketing, the family has put up a billboard under the railway bridge in Welling, at the junction of Bellegrove Road and Westwood Lane. It will be on display until September 12.
"It was my son's idea," Christine said, after Sam had heard about the charity through a friend, Jamie Kitto, who lives in County Durham.
Jamie has been familiar with the work of CALM for some time, and has managed to campaign for a billboard of his own to be put up at the grounds of Horden Community Welfare FC.
Now the family is asking other organisations across the country to get involved and offer their support to CALM in Joey's memory.
Christine said: "When you take your own life your pain and suffering does not die with you. It is inherited by your loved ones.
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem and it is never, ever, the answer. This is why we have to get men talking, to open up about how they are feeling.
"There is help out there and it's okay not to be okay
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A wrap-up of the year in Cisco Australia & New Zealand
What a year it has been - world firsts, new innovations, launches, executive visits, volunteering, awards and more…
Well that was 2018! What a year it has been - filled with world firsts, new innovations, key announcements, executive visits, volunteering, mentoring, awards and more! As we officially shutdown for the year, It's always great to reflect on the impact and highlights throughout the year. Let's take a look at the year that was: 2018.
A world first in Adelaide
The year kicked off with the announcement of Cisco's investment of $1 Million in world first technology in Adelaide to help reduce traffic congestion, launched exclusively with Channel 9 News Adelaide. Featuring Kevin Bloch, CIsco ANZ's Chief Technology Officer, a pilot of the technology took place at the Grenfell & Pulteney intersection in Adelaide on 31 January. The story focused on how the sensors work and their benefits to the City of Adelaide, showcasing Cisco's technology. South Australian Transport Minister at the time, Stephen Mullighan, was also interviewed, speaking to the world first technology in Adelaide.
Top 10 Trends for 2018
Kevin Bloch's highly rated Top 10 Trends for ICT in 2018 hit the social networks. His predictions covered AI, Intuitive Systems, Crypto, Blockchain, Destruction of Service, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles, Cloud, 5G, Mobile, AR. We are certainly looking forward to what he has in store for 2019…
Intent Based Networking - Cisco is taking the next step in reinventing the network for the digital era
In June 2017 we introduced our vision for intent-based networking – a new era of networking powered by intent and informed by context. Our goal is to build a system that constantly learns, adapts and protects. In February this year, we announced powerful new software innovations for the data center and enterprise focused squarely on assurance, ones that will enable the network to quickly identify the root cause of the toughest wired and wireless networking problems – real-time or historical – with suggested remediation to drive up productivity. Read more out here.
Cisco Live Melbourne!
The largest IT industry event in Australia that keeps growing each year! There is way too much to highlight, however if you're interested, you can still watch the sessions on-demand. Keynote sessions, technical sessions or innovation talks are all available – some great viewing over the summer holidays perhaps? Watch the full wrap of the event below too.
Planning for our 2019 event is well underway, and you can join us in Melbourne for action-packed days of sessions, hands-on learning experiences, expert demos, networking and fun! Register here.
Work. Intuitive.
Right after Cisco Live Melbourne; at Collaboration Summit we announced that Cisco Webex and Cisco Spark would be coming together to create a whole new set of collaboration tools and improve the way people work. We have extended the Network. Intuitive. to Work. Intuitive. for Collaboration, delivering a more intuitive way to work with one cloud platform, one core experience, and now one brand - Cisco Webex. Check out the video with Mille Bobbie Brown.
Cisco Technology Turning On the Commonwealth Games
Cisco was thrilled to be the Official Network Hardware Supporter for the XXI Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018), providing the network infrastructure to enable high-speed transmission of critical data across a highly secure, digital platform.
Connectivity and data sharing at large-scale events, such as the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, has become an expectation for spectators. Cisco provides the infrastructure that supports the network, which is integral to the role technology plays in our personal and professional lives. We were delighted to partner with Optus to deliver digital capabilities for the largest sporting event Australia will hold this decade.
It was a massive team effort, and Cisco's contribution was acknowledged by GOLDOC CEO, Mark Peters, who presented Ken Boal with this commemorative gift which includes a section of the track!
A number of our employees also participated in the Queen's Baton Relay, and we were fortunate to attend a number of the events with our Customers and Partners during the Games.
Breakfast for Heroes in New Zealand
The team held a successful launch event 'Breakfast for Heroes' in New Zealand with guest speakers including the Cisco Youthline Ambassador, Jake Bailey, who you might remember from his inspiring head-boy speech about his battle with cancer, which went viral (watch it here).
Dave Wilson, New Zealand Country Manager, called for action to support this important social issue. Cisco is also working with Youthline to introduce a technology platform which will revolutionise the way Youthline teams around the country speak to and support one another and assist more young Kiwis in need. Cisco NZ has decided to act, working alongside Rescue Run and the inspiring Jake Bailey to spread a message of digital 'hope' and literacy through schools. Check out Dave's blog here and this inspiring article, one of many which covered the event highlighting Dave's passionate call to arms CIOMagazine.
You can still support Youthline which features in Cisco 'Be the Bridge' brand campaign. Go here to check it out.
A Year's Worth of Intent-based Networking Innovation
At Cisco Live US where there are 26,000+ attendees in person, 350,000+ watching online and 300 partner sponsors – it's a big event! It was also a year since we announced our Intent Based Networking Innovation and where we announced the next evolution – Cisco DNA Centre Platform. Read more here.
Cisco DevNet Hits 500,000 Members
Back in 2014, we started DevNet, Cisco's developer program. We knew that software, APIs, and programmability would become core to the network, and we knew that we were going to drive programmability into our products in the years ahead. There was buzz around SDN in the research community, but we knew it would only become real when the people who were building and operating the world's most critical networks, Cisco's partners and customers, were ready to adopt the technology. We needed to get our community of network builders and network operators trained with the skills they would need for this transformation of the network. We created DevNet to enable networkers and application developers to use the power that would be coming with programmable networks and network APIs.
At Cisco Live US we announced that we've reached an important moment in Cisco's history - DevNet reaches 500,000 registered members milestone! In Australia we have over 6100 and in New Zealand over 780 in our DevNet community, which is growing every day. Make sure you join the local DevNet Express events in our capital cities, get into the action at Cisco Live Melbourne in March, or join and be part of this community!
Smart Intersections and IoT Trials
A trial was launched on the Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem (AIMES) test bed that is being run by University of Melbourne in Carlton and around the major roads in Melbourne. Cisco is a key partner in the test bed alongside Vic Roads, WSP and Cohda Wireless. Cisco provided a significant in-kind contribution of IoT equipment and resources towards the test bed. The trial is funded through Cisco's Strategic Industry Investment Program, while utilising the AIMES test bed. Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities at the time, Paul Fletcher, joined the world-first connected transport trial who asked questions of the partners, as featured on the Herald Sun.
Downer and Cisco partnership for smart infrastructure projects
Cisco's partnership with Downer was also an Internet of Things news feature in July, with a strong focus on bringing digital capability and advantages to the Australian transport and infrastructure industry.
The partnership will see Downer work with Cisco's IoT network platform - Cisco Kinetic for Cities, to deliver a number of smart city applications including intelligent street lighting, traffic light management, waste management and security. Check out some of the coverage.
ITNews: Downer Group gives Cisco a lift onto smart infrastructure projects
CRN: Cisco forms IoT partnership with $8 billion infrastructure firm Downer
ARN: Cisco strikes IoT alliance with Downer to drive transportation agenda
IoT Hub: Downer strikes IoT partnership with Cisco
Australasian Transport News: Downer teams with Cisco for smart roads
Cisco is committed to the Small & Medium Business
July shaped up to be a great month for the Cisco Small to Medium Business (SMB) team, and we announced a dedicated strategy for Australian SMBs and further commitment to supporting them on their digitisation journey. As part of this commitment, the Cisco team delivered a pitching competition – the Cisco Start Challenge. The brought together the SMB community, customers, partners and journalists, to uncover Cisco's specialised portfolio of security, networking, collaboration and storage solutions, and how these support the big business ambitions of our Australian SMBs.
After much deliberation, the judging panel crowned newly founded tech start-up, JAR Aerospace as the winner; taking home a $40,000 Cisco security and networking prize. You can read more about the Cisco Start Challenge in the SMB blog, and find out more about Jar Aerospace and their digital transformation here.
Judges with winner JAR Aerospace: Raymond Janse van Rensburg, Director of Systems Engineering at Cisco ANZ, Fred Schebesta, CEO of Finder.com.au, Nykaj Nair, Head of Small Business, Cisco, and avid small business supporters David Koch, co-host of morning show Sunrise, and Cori Drogemuller, Head of Communications at Cisco ANZ
Cisco Australia & New Zealand Sales Kick off!
The entire Australia & New Zealand business comes together twice a year, first for Cisco Live and in August for the ANZ Sales Kick Off (SKO). Over 650 employees attended the event in Sydney, which helps to keep everyone aligned on the ANZ strategy and provide an opportunity to build connections right across the team.
With a series of keynotes, panels, and award presentations, returning hosts Dave Wilson, NZ Country Manager and Tara Ridley, Director Partner Organisation, were back in their best costumes to keep the content and themes of the day interesting. A big part of the event is just enjoying time together and celebrating, wrapping up the day with a nineties themed dance party.
Cisco is named in the top three great places to work!
Receiving news we were in the top three in Great Place to Work was a key highlight for the Cisco ANZ team. Great Place to Work studies the world's most notable workplace cultures, from small start-ups to some of the best-known multinationals, and what makes them great. The study shows what we at Cisco know, a strong team culture produces superior business performance.
Cisco's people focused initiatives like Time to Give, Moments that Matter, a focus on health and wellness, flexible work, and employee led programs including Working@Cisco ANZ, the Cisco Disability Awareness Network and the Connected Women's Network all contribute to the making Cisco a great place to work.
Most of all, it's the amazing spirit and people that set Cisco's culture apart!
The HR team accepting our award at the awards reception: Alysha Mascarenhas, Chelsea Ngo, Kylie Owen, Sarah Robinson, James Comer
Australia ranks #10 in Cisco's first Digital Readiness Index
Cisco released the first global Digital Readiness Index which provides an overview of how digitisation and innovation can maximize inclusion in Australia. The report included insights into Australia's State & Territories and their standing in regards to digital readiness and where they sit on a scale of Amplify high, medium or low, offering a valuable perspective across the nation.
Cisco made recommendations for Australia's states and territories, in order to maintain its global ranking, including investing in vocational education focusing on digital, increasing ties between industry and academia, and developing the digital skills of government workers. Ken noted that despite a strong overall score, the benefits of digitisation need to be better shared amongst all Australians to build a more digitally inclusive society.
Ken Boal, Vice President of Cisco ANZ, Tim Fawcett, Director of Corporate and Government Affairs of Cisco ANZ, and Amanda Cumberland, Head of Strategic Insights at Cisco US, delivered the findings in a media briefing held at Sydney HQ. The study supports Cisco's National Engagement Strategy as well as providing recommendations to key policymakers. The media roundtable was well covered in top Australian mainstream and trade media Australian Financial Review, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), CIO Australia, and ITWire.
Cisco Connect New Zealand
Cisco Connect New Zealand took place in Auckland and Wellington, delivering expert insights and recommendations on driving digital transformation to the next level. A report was launched by Cisco revealing that New Zealand faces cybersecurity skills shortage and micro-credentials are upskilling the workforce to relieve demand for such skills sets. This report received strong interest from industry press and has led to positive reports crediting Cisco for putting a fresh focus on cybersecurity skills shortage, featured in Reseller News, Security Brief NZ, IT Brief NZ, Scoop and OpenGov.
Michelle Dennedy, Cisco's Chief Privacy Officer, appeared on the Morning Talk with Mark Sainsbury on Radio Live earlier this morning sharing the importance of data privacy for listeners. Glenn Maiden, National Security Officer, was on The Leighton Smith Show, one of the most popular shows on Newstalk ZB to help take the fear out of cybersecurity. The segment was so popular it was featured in the show's weekend highlights.
Students, aspiring professionals, senior executives (both women and men) joined the first Women of Influence Speaker Series in New Zealand to let go of self-doubt and fuel courage and creativity for girls and women across the nation. Speakers included Cisco's Michelle Dennedy, Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, Sue Kedgley, Wellington Regional Councillor, Dellwyn Stuart, CEO Auckland Foundation and Founder of New Zealand's first Women's Fund, and our very own Julie Canepa, Chief Information Officer for Cisco Australia and New Zealand.
Over 230 people attended to hear inspiring first-hand experiences of challenges in diverse industries and key actions to empower and remove hurdles for the next generation of leaders.
ARN Awards – Ken Boal inducted into the Hall of Fame
At the 2018 ARN Innovation Awards in September, the industry's finest were called to recognise the achievements of market leading partners, start-ups, distributors and individuals. A highly competitive night, the award winners were celebrated among 680 of the country's leading industry figures. The 2018 ARN Hall of Fame inductees included Ken Boal, Vice President of Australia and New Zealand, with Cisco also taking out the Networking Award. Industry recognition such as this supports Cisco's thought leadership position as a market leader, and an innovator.
As put by Ken in his acceptance speech, "We are at the heart of a national digitisation program, the heart of a big transformation, if we all in this industry don't get it right, then Australia will be left behind."
Cisco CEO, Chuck Robbins visits Australia
Chuck Robbins, CEO, visited Australia with Miyuki Suzuki, President of Asia Pacific Japan & China, and Mark Patterson, Chief of Staff in September. In between meeting with employees and meetings, Chuck held an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review.
The first interview featured the partnership with Australian start-up, Local Measure, which provides business owners and managers real-time information on what their customers are saying on social media, highlighting the collaboration between the two organizations and how Cisco has been working with them to digitally overhaul the iconic Sydney Opera House. The article made the elusive front page of the newspaper!
The second piece in the AFR featured a few weeks later, in which Chuck discusses important broader topics and political issues he is dealing with in his role as CEO – such US & China trade or immigration and the separation of children from their parents.
The highlight of the visit for our team was the meet and greet with employees in front of the Sydney Opera House, with the employees selected by ballot. We think this picture reflects the excitement of the day!
The Cisco 2018 Asia-Pacific Security Capabilities Benchmark Study reported that Australia had more cyber attacks than its APJ neighbours, and with greater impact. Breaches in Australia were stated to have the highest cost in the Asia Pacific region – with 52 percent of attacks reported to cost between $1 to $5 million AUD. The results of the study highlight the scale of the challenge faced by companies, the complexity and how the landscape continues to change.
The study was launched to coincide with the AISA Conference in Melbourne and landed exclusive coverage with tier one print publication, The Australian, and a number of tech and security publications.
MentorMe – another year closer to our AUSTEM2020 mentoring target
Our 2018 cohort of over 100 Cisco MentorMe university students graduated! We had record Cisco mentee engagement from across all our sites this year, which included 12 universities in Australia, New Zealand & Singapore. Check out the 5 things our mentees learned, summarised by our program lead, Holly O'Toole.
Fighting for Encryption & Security Around the World
Cisco responded and participated in a hearing before the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security – to review the Assistance and Access Bill. You can read more about Cisco's response here.
Partner Summit 2018
Partner Summit kicked off in Vegas with the largest number of Australian & New Zealand partners attending in man years! It was a massive few days, with the opportunity to hear from Cisco's new leadership team, including Oliver Tuszik, our new Global Partner Organisation leader. There were also a number of key announcements including -
Leading New Customer Value Together, which focused on our SD-WAN and Catalyst 9000 announcements
New Ways to Connect Workspaces, which was all about BroadSoft integration and huddle spaces
Grow Today and Transform for Tomorrow with Cisco Partner Programs, which highlighted our new Customer Experience Specialization and updated incentives
Cisco Applauds its Global Award Winners at Partner Summit 2018 – in which a number of our Australian Partners won!
Women in IT
The Cisco team was proud to join the ARN Women in IT awards, in support of our two finalists, Tara Ridley, Director Partner Organisation, and Nesrene O'Connell, Head of Event Marketing and APJ Event Strategy. Tara was nominated in the Achievement category, and Nesrene was selected to be in the running for the Innovation category.
Tara Ridley won the Achievement award, recognising outstanding commitment to the ICT industry through continuous career development and professional achievements. The award acknowledges those who have risen to a senior ICT role, earned a reputation as an esteemed thought-leader and recognised as a leader in the industry, and may also act as a role model/mentor to other aspiring female managers.
Tara spoke of supporting diversity in her speech, including 'The message I take from my career is we all need those mentors and sponsors to support us, and if you can see it, you can be it!' Congratulations Tara, we are so proud of you!
Throughout the year the Cisco Connected Women had a number of outstanding events – including the Connected Women of Influence Speaker Series which features women in leadership who have made a significant contribution in creating a diverse future for Asia Pacific. The series has been a roaring success, attended by hundreds of employees, partners & customers who have attended live or virtually, to hear from outstanding speakers such as - Suzanne Young, Executive General Manager, Operational Partnering at IAG and Hera Siu, Cisco's Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Greater China, Jan Owen, CEO, Foundation of Young Australians, Miyuki Suzuki, Cisco's President of Asia Pacific Japan & China.
Our final session was held in December with Dr Jemma Green who works in the fields of block chain, artificial intelligence and energy and who co-founded Power Ledger which empowers individuals and communities all over the world with access to electricity that is low-cost, reliable, and renewable. We also meet Karrie Llagan, Country Manager for Cisco in the Philippines. Karrie is responsible for supporting customers in the domestic market, with a particular focus on enabling digital transformation and propelling cybersecurity capabilities, via an ecosystem of Cisco Channel Partners. Watch the recording below.
It's the season for Giving Back!
We've included a snapshot of the amazing work the Australia and New Zealand team has done to support our local communities over the year. This is a key element of our culture, where we're allocated 5 days each year to take time out of work (paid!) to give back or volunteer to an organisation of our choice.
It's part of our focused efforts to harness the power of technology and our people, to enable everyone to participate and benefit from the digital economy, to ensure Aussie & Kiwi citizens are healthy and educated.
The Brisbane team at the World's Biggest Garage Sale
New Zealand Rescue Run
Team in Perth helping out at the Salvation Army
Senior Leadership Team at St Kilda Mums in Melbourne
St Leonards helping out the book fair at Lifeline
North Sydney, Brisbane, St Leonards hosts RUOK? Day
Adelaide raising funds for Mighty River Run
Team Cisco at Mother's Day Classic Run
Meraki team using their Time2Give at the Dandelion Group.
The Bridge to Possible
Cisco was founded on the possibilities of a single connection between two people. Over thirty years later, that one connection has multiplied to billions, two founders have grown to 75,000 employees, and the world is filled with an unprecedented complexity and opportunity. What remains unchanged is our belief in the power of connections to achieve what's possible – for our customers, partners, employees, and the world.
With a single connection Cisco changed the world – and we continue to do so today. Our new Cisco campaign, The Bridge to Possible has launched across the globe and we have two amazing stories in ANZ which feature in this campaign – Orange Sky and Youthline. You can donate to these charities too.
Between experiences of homelessness & human connection, there's a bridge.
Cisco and Orange Sky are building the bridge to human connection, together. Through IoT, networking and collaboration, Orange Sky continue to increase the speed and productivity of their operation and their ability to pioneer their world-changing vans, positively connecting communities all over.
Between needing support and finding it, there's a bridge.
These holidays, we are supporting the volunteers that work tirelessly 24/7 to ensure young people across New Zealand have access to support when they need it. Through technology, Cisco and Youthline New Zealand work together to improve and revolutionise how the Youthline team work with each other across the country and how they assist our youth in need digitally
What a year! There is so much that takes place throughout one year, and we've not been able to cover it all! We hope you've enjoyed a snapshot of some of our most memorable moments.
The Cisco Australia & New Zealand team wishes our customers, partners and all of the people in our communities in which we work and live, a wonderful holiday season. We'll see you back in 2019 for another cracking year!