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The Kalikavu incident - 1915
Malabar -War years 1941-1944
Posted by Maddy Labels: British Calicut
A famine and the cholera epidemic....1943
Everybody talked about the Great War as the summer months of 1942 scorched the southern regions of India. The eastern allied bastions fell one after another, by February 42 Singapore had capitulated and in March 1942, Rangoon had fallen and Port Blair in the Andamans had been taken. The overjoyed INA factions in Malaya and Burma were waiting for directions from their new leader Subhas Chandra Bose ensconced in Rangoon, while at the same time, hundreds of thousands of panic stricken Indian refugees (Burmese workers) were in full flight across the seas and borders into India, their ancestral home. Their belief was total that the British Raj would do nothing to help them, for their brethren had not received any great support either at Malaya or Singapore. One could hear the refrain – that invasion was imminent, the Japanese were coming, and that the British are set to flee India. With censor controlled war news channels focused on the action in Europe, rumor machines in India took over and wild tales were told and retold. The Japanese soldier, though smaller than a Burmese elephant, evoked a bigger fear, rivaling a dragon.
Calicut should have been insulated from all this, but it was not. Many of the youngsters from affluent families were employed in Madras and they reported frantically that the situation there was no good either. In April a small incident involving some air strafing at Kakinada and Vizag set off bigger alarms in Madras. There were rumors that Jap ships had been sighted a few miles off the Machilipatnam coast. Madras trembled and the people fled from the city in trains and every other means of transport, inwards to villages and their ancestral homes. The Governor left for Vellore and the Secretariat machinery left by the Blue Mountain Express for the Nilgiris. And as Pulla Reddi mentioned 'the Police Commissioner, insisting that the animals might break loose if Japanese bombs fell, refused to wait and sent a platoon of the Malabar Special Police to the Madras zoo 'who to his great horror ruthlessly did their job in a few minutes'
Such events should and did have repercussions in our home in Chalappuram as well (My aunt breathlessly explained how events transpired, last week). Everything of value at Ambalakkat was locked up and boarded, dark cloth was put over windows and the whole family left for Manjapra in Palghat, my dad's maternal home near Vadakkancheri. My bachelor uncle Balamama remained behind to keep watch over the house. But it was a false alarm, nothing happened either in Madras or Calicut. All that happened over the months which followed was the southerly trek of a forlorn stream of refugees from Burma, into Madras.
The monsoon which hit Calicut (I can't be sure if it was 41, 42 or 43, my aunt explains that her memory is a bit foggy these days) was particularly ferocious. She tells me that the flood waters came right behind our house in Chalappuram and boats plied the waters to take people and goods back and forth. As panic ensued, some burly Khalasi Mappilas were deployed to cut the (azhimurikkal) sand banks on the mouth of the Kallayi River and let the flood waters recede. They struggled initially, witnessed by a great mass of people on the shore, some khalasis were swept away into the raging sea, never to return again, but the others succeeded eventually and the waters ashore receded.
The war panic in Malabar too receded as the British pulled up their socks and geared up in the North East to fight the Japanese at Imphal and Kohima. The role of the Malayali in this war is unknown to many. Strange is the fact that the first IIL/INA subversions from Singapore to challenge the British in India, were launched by a Malayali from Calicut (See my article on TP Kumaran Nair), and even stranger is the fact that the first roads laid in the inhospitable mountain jungles at the far outreaches of Assam were the efforts of a couple of Malayali platoons (together with a Tamil and a Telugu platoon). It was this road that provided a means for the British and allied forces to launch a counter attack on the Japanese and the INA! It is a fascinating story which I will soon present. But for now let us get back to Malabar, briefly forgotten by the British in the chaos of war, where the situation was becoming dire, for other reasons.
The year 1943 is best remembered as the middle year of the Second World War, a period when the fortunes of the Allies changed for the better. The Axis powers were slowly driven back, from the various fronts where they had gotten stalled. The military generals and politicians had until then focused on their own existence and their mother countries, were more worried about events and strategies of the war, preparing on a daily basis to save themselves from annihilation. People ended up showing not only their best, but also their worst behavior, in this eagerness to save themselves.
Subash Chandra Bose and his INA were sequestered in Rangoon, trying to find common ground with the Japs. The Congress Party's Working Committee were all under arrest, all major leaders of the INC had been arrested and detained. The confused masses were leaderless and protests started to take a violent turn. In large parts of the country, local underground organizations took over. The political deadlock in the country continued throughout 1943. The detained Congress leaders continued in jail with the exception of Mahatma Gandhi, who was eventually released on medical grounds in May 1944. The quit India movement which had been launched, was petering out. Meanwhile famines hit many regions in British India, Malabar, Travancore and Cochin included.
Not many bothered about the South, especially Malabar, Cochin and Travancore. These were usually considered as areas typically blessed with good monsoons and had in the past managed splendidly according to the many English administrators who passed through, such as Innes, Evans and Logan. And so, Malabar was never seriously considered when the famine act was prepared in the previous century. The first major allocation of funds to Malabar was also connected with the famine act. The money thus obtained by declaring Malabar famine prone was later diverted from the famine insurance fund towards railway construction. In 1881, the Tirur - Beypore rail link was laid and by 1888, Calicut and Palghat were connected. Beypore was soon relinquished and six more lines were laid. The argument was that with the railway, equitable distribution of supplies would keep any future famine at bay.
During the wars, the British in general did not believe in alleviating any Indian situation of distress and concentrated on shipping food to war-torn Britain, sometimes even trans-shipping them out of India in full view of starving masses. Some British leaders even mentioned, that for a future balanced population in India, which was full of teeming breeders, some had to die, following on Churchill's words that India was a country with beastly people and a beastly religion, who bred like rabbits. When told about the famines in India, he shot back 'if so many were dying from lack of food, why is Gandhiji not already dead?' Pundits explained that a potential reason for his apathy at the growing tragedy in India was due to his anger at Gandhiji's efforts in taking away the jewel called India from the British crown, which he perceived, was his duty to defend. The lack of response in his dealings with the spreading famine was perhaps his way of getting back at Gandhi.
But how did Malabar end up with a deficit in food? Unlike many other places, Malabar indeed cultivated a lot of money crops those days, but they were commercial crops such as spices, tobacco, coffee, tea, sugarcane, castor to name a few. Of course there were coconuts, areca-nuts, jackfruits, cashew, mango and so on, and some amount of rice (food crops) was cultivated in Eranad and Valluvanad. With the outbreak of WWII, food prices spiraled upward and taxation rose. Though the British failed to act in the 1941-42 years, the situation was largely nascent because Burma, the rice bowl of undivided India was producing the required amounts of rice and they were being shipped to various ports in India, including Malabar, Cochin and Travancore. The Chettiars were still in control in Burma and rice of dubious quality continued to arrive in Malabar and Cochin ports. Problems started when the Japanese raided Burma.
The Southeast Asian campaign of WWII started when the Japanese bombed Victoria Point during Dec 1941, cordoned off Burma and followed up with the capture of Singapore, Malaysia and launched a land attack on Burmese targets. The Japanese intent was to get to the oilfields in Burma, a strategic conquest to ensure they had resources for the grand entry westwards across India. Within a span of three months, the British in Burma were in a hasty retreat, and Burma was in Japanese hands. The British, the Chettiar landowners and bankers as well as many hundreds of thousands of Indian laborers fled across the borders to mainland India. Paddy cultivation and its harvest was forgotten and the rice fields and mills in Burma, were at the mercy of the native Burmese and the Japanese conquerors.
With the evacuation of Rangoon in March 1942, there was now practically no hope of some 1.5 million tons of rice imports into Malabar, Travancore or Cochin and the industrial populations of Madras and Bengal. You can now imagine how matters spiraled downwards in rapid fashion. The deficit was not only in the South but in the whole of India.The wholesale price index of rice more than doubled in India and deficit financing surged from Rs 4 crores to Rs 438 crores in 1942-43. The Indian army increased in size 10 times to some 3 million solders and they naturally needed a lot of food, which the British had to provide in required quantities. As rice stocks got depleted, prices soared and the price ceiling acts did not work. As food intake reduced, malnutrition was rampant and the region of Malabar was now facing what usually follows, disease.
Adding to the misery was an uneven monsoon (too little and too much and at wrong times) the previous two years, and domestic production was some 40% lower. As imports from Burma stopped entirely and procurement from Mysore could not take place due to wartime disruptions, speculation and hoarding exacerbated the situation. The Gujarati and Mappila rice traders of Calicut were also to blame for the difficult times, for many were recorded as hoarding stocks. There were many other reasons too, and one you may find hard to believe was that rice was diverted to feed many European prisoners interned in India (Satara, Bangalore, the Nilgiri hill stations etc)! It was also noted by researchers that during the war years, workers used to work from 7 am to 5.30 pm; while post War, physical weakening due to malnutrition had reduced it to 8 am to 12.30 pm, showing the effects of the famine.
Interestingly the situation was brought up in the House of Lords – Huntingdon stated in Oct 1943 - I have no wish to give more of these harrowing figures. Those I have given are enough, I think, to confirm the dreadful stories of starvation and misery which are coming from India today, especially in the Deccan, and the States of Cochin and Travancore, and even more so in Bengal. Rice has risen over 950 per cent above pre-war prices and in some places even more. Not only is there a shortage of grain and rice, but there is also a great shortage of milk and milk products, and in fact foodstuffs of all kinds seem to be in great scarcity and at exorbitant prices. And whenever food is short cholera makes its appearance. In the Malabar districts 3,000 cases have been reported. Grim stories have come of patients not wishing to be cured of cholera, as the only alternative would be a slower death from starvation. There are also worse stories of parents deserting dying children, and children deserting parents, and even of children being sold for the price of food. But we do not need to stress these stories; I think the figures are enough to stir our imagination and to show how appalling the conditions in India must be.
Many others agreed, but as it appears, nothing came out of those pithy debates!
The administration turned a blind eye and to make the situation even worse, with agricultural work dwindling, many from the lowest classes became destitute. The cost of living index in Calicut, doubled. Rice cultivation in Malabar actually stabilized later in 1943, but all the produce was shipped to Assam for the military folks amassed to fight the Japs at the border. Meanwhile Bengal was also facing an acute famine, which got some amount of press and attention, but hardly any support. Millions died. Bose and the INA offered to ship rice from Burma for Bengal, but Churchill shot back that if he saw a single merchant ship in the Indian Ocean, it would be diverted to the Atlantic for needy Englishmen. To allies who were offering help to India, he stated that he could neither offer ships nor escort. And he informed them, crossly, that Indians, especially Bengalis, do not eat wheat.
In the twentieth century the import trade in rice was dominated by the Cutchi Memons, Gujaratis and Mappila merchants, at Calicut. They preferred Burmese rice because it was cheaper to ship them to Malabar rather than obtain rice from other northern centers. Interestingly, superior rice grown in Malabar was exported to other areas and the people of Malabar purchased cheaper rice imported from Burma. Cochin imported its rice/paddy requirements from Burma, Siam, and Indo- China. In Trichur a portion of the imported paddy was milled and re-exported to adjoining areas in pre-war times. The superior varieties grown in Chittur taluk were exported to Pollachi and Coimbatore markets. Cochin also received imported paddy and rice from Burma for re-distribution to Malabar.
Academically the situation in Malabar was starkly simple - Owing to the stoppage of imports amounting to about 300,000 tons of rice from Burma, the district of Malabar suffered very badly from shortage of food. The supplies obtained by Government to replace the imported rice came to 15,000 tons a month, which was reduced in 1942 December to 10,000 tons. In reality more than half of Malabar, Cochin and Travancore's needs were being met by Burmese rice imports, and a loss of this as you can very well imagine, was not possible to counter. The results were malnutrition and disease.
Nobody was really bothered about the situation in Malabar, which by the way was simply dire. Malabar already in the throes of acute famine, was hit by a double whammy as resistance and disease immunity levels dropped. Disease stuck in waves as Malaria, Cholera and plague arrived. By February 43, Cholera had become an epidemic in Calicut. By June, July and August 1943, this virulent cholera strain dropped multitudes like flies in the heat. Initially, Cholera appeared in early June among the street beggars of Calicut. To prevent spreading of the epidemic in the city, these beggars were moved out to southern camps beyond the municipal limits of Calicut. This resulted in the infection spreading to the country villages.
Shankar - Cartoon depicting the Travancore situation
The inoculation drive was another problem. The ill trained vaccinators were not trained, they made the process extremely painful and used no disinfectants, scaring people even more. Tanur was hit as Calicut residents boarded the trains and got off there. Village officials refused to venture into any house where an affected person lived. Collector Mc Ewan and KV Suryanarayana Iyer the Municipal councilor tried hard in getting additional supplies, but getting any bureaucratic machinery to work during these panic stricken situations was perhaps impossible. The Malabar food committee had the Nilambur raja as chairman, and political parties as we saw formed their own helping committees. The taluks of Eranad, Ponnani and Calicut were most affected with a daily death toll of over 50. In Calicut, VR Nayanar's Servants of India society, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Communist Party and the Malabar relief committee rose up to help. The congress led Cholera relief committee set up over 118 relief centers. Many orphanages sprung up. But one big issue in those days was the non-adaptability of Malabar food habits. Neither would they eat North Indian crops like Bajra, millet or wheat nor would they consume Travancorean Tapioca. As the situation became desperate the poorest of the poor subsisted on green leaves and grass on certain days, according to official records. Eventually, it just became a record of sorts, and it is simply mentioned that in 1943, in the midst of this epidemic, nearly 40,000 people died of cholera, dysentery and diarrhea.
Why Malabar got hit with this kind of a Cholera epidemic was an issue very much discussed in those days. While some administrators blamed unhygienic living, improper disposal of night soil in Calicut and so on, another story doing its rounds was that one last consignment of old Burmese rice sent from Madras to tide over the famine, early in 1943 was unhygienic. Some opined that the symptoms were not typical of Cholera but acute diarrhea.
Statutory rationing was started 1944 and a one pound rice limit was fixed for ration holders in Calicut. But this was conditional on them buying a certain amount of wheat and Ragi. Cochin interestingly led the efforts of weaning away its hungry poor from rice by starting Cochin restaurants making new wheat and millet dishes. Slowly the difficulties abated and matters stabilized in Malabar.
In neighboring Travancore, similar issues cropped up, as they were also affected by the rice export stoppage from Burma. They had an even harsher predicament for a short while as the Madras presidency refused to provide any rice to the kingdom of Travancore due to shortages in the Madras State.
Interestingly landowners prospered to a certain extent, while the Japanese attacks decimated the large food growing areas in SE Asia. South India was the only undisturbed place and despite the 43 famine, they prospered due to higher prices and guaranteed purchases by the government. For example coconut prices rose three fold, rice by 450% and rubber by 750 times. So you can imagine how these landowners fared and why that resulted in the creation of so many small private banks in the state. And this possibility of becoming a landowner and obtaining regular work, coupled with a linient Malabar tenancy act made a number of Travancoreans move and resettle in Malabar's hilly traits.
But one should also observe how different people gained or lost from the Great War. Nelliyampathy in Palghat is a prime example. In 1943, the State of Cochin started a farm in Nelliyampathy to feed the British troops. Many private entrepreneurs, inspired by the market for oranges, converted abandoned coffee plantations to orange plantations. Though there has been a noticeable decline in the area under orange plantations, Nelliyampathy still has orange trees growing in about 240 acres of land.
Another classic is the story 'Maram' penned by NP Muhammad, of a saw mill worker in Kallayi who quietly stole driftwood owned by others and became a rich man, a 'moilali'. A period short story with a love triangle, it details the 1940's Calicut, mentioning among other matters, itinerant Moplah workers, demonstrating how fortunes can change a man and so on, ending with a gentle twist. Those interested can see the movie online if you google it and see the visuals from the old Kallayi.
All in all, it was a harrowing time. Large percentages of population were decimated, but perhaps some good came out of it after all. Food distribution took effect, rationing and food control came about, there was a realization that rice was not the only form of food and many people found some sense in education, immunizations, hygiene and being responsible for themselves.
And there was something else, the tremendous awe which the British were held in, rapidly dissipated. To the people the state, for once, due to the special circumstances of war, looked brittle and the British no longer in any semblance of control. Some of their selfish acts were exposed during this troubled time as their true color surfaced. The government as many saw, now looked marked for oblivion. Finally, the Indians came out of it with a reborn vigor and a resolve to drive the colonial powers back to Britain.
Most of all, as Robin Jeffrey observes, the war broke down many caste values, restrictions on travel, the value of education and a possibility to work anywhere. It was a direct result of this that the Malayali decided that he never wanted to be hungry and poor again or beg for food handouts. They moved and traveled after this, to seek better fortunes. Many enlisted in the army, and many joined labor battalions to work in Assam and Burma and with it started a new Kerala economy, that of incoming remittances from these hard workers, toiling not only in others parts of India but decades later, in difficult terrains and conditions, abroad.
It has remained so ever since and lo and behold, a few decades later, the Malayali food symbol morphed into the wheat (maida) porotta. Wheat based dishes such as the Upma (salt mango tree), Poori, Chappati, and the such entered mainstream. The traditional meal comprising a humongous heap of Burmese boiled rice on a plantain leaf with a curry or two, slowly receded to a distant memory.
State failure and human miseries – M Raghavan
Malabar Famine of 1943, a critique of the war situation in Malabar 1939-1943 - Priya P
Food control and Nutrition surveys Malabar and S Kanara – KG Sivaswamy and others
The Cry of Distress - K Santhanam
Politics Women & well-being – Robin Jeffrey
Food Crisis in the Malabar District 1945-47 - N Balasubramaniam
Initially I wanted to write a factual article, steeped in details. As I started to peruse the dense but erudite works of KG Sivaswamy, Kasturiranga Santhanam and the very detailed analysis of M Raghavan, as well as some of those terrible pictures of the sufferers, I grew increasingly pensive and angry. The initial draft had lots of statistics and reasoning which I assumed would be terribly boring to a young reader who I hope will never see, hear or experience a famine, ever. Their minds, I thought, steeped in modernity and some amount of excess would never understand all this, so I dropped the topic and deleted the old draft. But then again, it did not leave my mind, so what I rewrote was a milder version, which you see above. I can assure you my friends, that it was terrible in Calicut in the first three quarters of 1943, far worse than my pen picture, it was a time when hoarding and theft was rampant, when friends turned enemies and when hope left the masses of Malabar.
I was surprised to note that famed writers of that era did not record this in their books or stories. Basheer it seems did make some mention, but why did SK Pottekat abstain? Or am I wrong? Reader opinion solicited. Was it fear of censorship?
Once again thanks for this wonderful informative article .
Thanks Soorya Narayan
appreciate it..
navnith
Thanks for the well researched article.
sumal
Remarkable article. May such travails never visit India


On Friday I met up with a new crafty, upcycling peep... Judy from Upcycle That. We went on an adventure to the Strathcona Business Improvement Association's Resource Exchange. I needed burlap for my upcycling workshop in September and she had never been there.
The Resource Exchange is the perfect spot for finding upcycling supplies for free. It's a win win!
And here's their stash of burlap sacks. I grabbed a few for an upcycling workshop I have in September at the North Vancouver City Library as part of Culture Days. One of the upcycling projects is making garlands. These are perfect!
I also grabbed more fabric samples... They have TONS!
Then we trekked a bit more around Strathcona. Such a great area of town with loads of neat stores to check out.
Like Homesteader's Emporium... Rick opened Homesteader's Emporium a couple of years ago. You can buy your homesteading supplies here for raising chickens, urban gardening, canning and more. Plus they host workshops. Such a FAB place and Rick is pretty kewl.
Here's Rick... I'm definitely signing up for a workshop in the Fall.
And that was my quick jaunt in Strathcona on Friday... Hanging out with crafty peeps, picking up free stuff to repurpose and making new friends. A very fun afternoon!


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The Critical Missed Step
by Geraldine E. Rodgers
What was this watershed and enormously harmful change which has been misunderstood and ignored for so very long, for some 200 years? Before answering that question, something should be considered that has been very truly said. It is that, in order for an answer to a question to be understood correctly, an inquirer must already know about 90% of the answer that is to be given. Therefore, it will be worthwhile first to review some of that necessary 90% background of knowledge.
The History of Beginning Reading: From Teaching by "Sound" to Teaching by "Meaning"
Geraldine E. Rodgers
The Hidden Story
The Born-Yesterday World of the Reading Experts
The root cause for present-day literacy problems has never been seriously considered. This book attempts to explain the facts.
As a third-grade teacher, Geraldine E. Rodgers was appalled by the reading inadequacies of the children arriving at third grade after having "learned" to read with the standard sight-word readers. To study the problem, she took a sabbatical leave in 1977 to observe first graders and to test over 900 of the resultant second graders in their own languages, in the United States, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Austria and France. She found that two dominant and quite different types of readers resulted, from differences in beginning first grade methods. She then spent the following thirty or so years researching the history of the teaching of reading, in the Library of Congress, Harvard University, the British Library in London, and many other sources, and as a result has published a 3-volume history, and four other texts concerning the problem..

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I have to admit, the ads for these courses are enticing. The course creators are sharing how they earn $10,000 a month generating leads for small local businesses.
They show themselves on vacation or their luxury cars, homes, etc. What makes their ads even more inviting is that they tell you anyone can do the same thing with no experience.
I'm certain that there are many successful people earning thousands per month with their own social media marketing agency.
However, having experience working for various web marketing agencies, I wanted to investigate a bit and share what I feel about the process.
What Does It Take to Start a Social Media Marketing Agency?
The reason why these SMMA courses sell so well is because there is quite a bit to learn in order to get started.
It sounds simple in theory. You put up a lead page and use Facebook ads to deliver traffic. Any leads that you get are sent to the client and the client pays you X amount per month.
Before you get started, you will need certain web software, research tools, and knowledge on how to use them. You will also need to learn some marketing skills such as copywriting and running paid ads.
Below is a graphic representation of a very simple sales funnel. It is an affiliate sales funnel but ignore that. It is the same type of funnel that you can set up for any business.
The first page of the funnel is your lead capture page. It is also referred to as a landing page or a squeeze page.
The purpose of this page is to capture your visitor's contact information. You can collect their name, email address, and phone number.
You can use this page by itself or you can combine it with a thank you page and/or offer page to create a sales funnel.
It is easy to create a lead capture page or sales funnel using landing page software such as ClickFunnels™ or LeadPages.
You could also use a WordPress website but you would likely need to find a plugin that could create lead capture pages for you.
You'll want your lead capture page to offer some type of incentive in order to get visitors to input their contact information.
It could be the promise of a free consultation, discount coupon, or a free guide.
This page is optional. You can upsell a product or service for your client. Otherwise, you are fine with the lead capture page and thank you page.
You can collect leads for your client and have the leads automatically sent to them. Then it is the job of the client to contact them immediately.
Once that happens, communication with those leads has ended. Instead, it is a good idea to use an email autoresponder to place those leads in a database.
You can then use the autoresponder to send emails to those leads on a continuing basis.
By doing so, the client has the ability to send more information as well as event info, special discounts, and more.
AWeber is a popular autoresponder service that I have used for years.
The most common advertising method these courses use and recommend is Facebook ads. It makes sense as you can really target your local area for the best leads.
Besides learning how to use Facebook ads, you will also need to learn how to write the ads. This means developing some basic copywriting skills.
The SMMA courses that you may have come across will all have their own methods for how they set up their lead generation websites.
However, I think what I've outlined so far comes close to what is needed for this type of business to work.
I've worked for a few web marketing agencies. One, in particular, generated leads for attorneys.
It was a large operation with a web team (the department in which I worked), a marketing team, and a sales team.
Of course, you would start off small with the option to scale up as much as you want later on.
While many of these SMMA courses show you all of the perks such as earning tens of thousands per month, having tons of free time, working for yourself, etc., there is a side you may not have considered.
A solo social media marketing agency has its expenses. You will need to be able to create lead capture pages so that means using software to do so. This can cost anywhere from $80 per month and up.
You may want to use an autoresponder and offer email marketing to your clients. Autoresponders can start from $19 and up per month.
Then there is the expense of the paid ads that you run. Yes, the client would cover this expense but for learning purposes, you'd probably want to run a few test ads of your own.
Besides that, if you need to use one of the courses that you've come across, you'll be paying hundreds of dollars for the course itself. Many that I've come across cost anywhere from $500 dollars and up.
This can be the most challenging part of your business. It sounds simple, right?
You may think, "what local business doesn't want leads?" and many small business owners don't know how to generates leads online.
There are many small businesses that need leads such as attorneys, dentists, local gyms, accountants, yoga studios, and more.
The issue is, how do you convince them to pay you $800 dollars or more per month for lead generation?
You are a stranger and these businesses are solicited all the time for one thing or another.
You could offer to set up their sales funnel for free in exchange for them to pay for their first month of Facebook ads.
If they are happy with the leads you provide in that month, you may be able to convince some clients to retain your services for a monthly fee.
There is a lot of work in this part of the business. Not every local business owner is going to want what you offer and some that may take you up on it may not be convinced enough to continue.
Even worse, you may end up with a client or two that won't pay you on time if at all. I've done freelance web work for years and often had to wait months before a client finally paid an invoice.
Part of the reason a client would pay you hundreds or thousands of dollars per month is that the leads they are getting are converting into sales.
The more conversions, the more money the clients make, and all the more reason they will pay you a monthly fee to keep the leads coming.
However, what if a majority of these leads don't convert. It is a possibility that the client becomes dissatisfied with your services.
You are offering a service and your clients will expect the best for what they pay you. That means you will need to offer excellent customer service.
Clients will call you and ask questions about one thing or another. They will expect status updates and monthly reports.
They'll want to know what type of results they are getting and if they are getting a good return on their investment.
You'll need to stay on top of their ads, how much you're spending, and more.
In the end, you will be working a lot. Probably a lot more than what the SMMA course ads are letting on.
I by no means want to dissuade anyone from starting an agency of their own. If it seems interesting to you and most of all sounds like fun, it is worth a try.
However, there are other online business models that you can consider that do not require you to pitch clients.
All of the above require learning some marketing skills as well as paid advertising if you want.
There are many local businesses that would benefit from your help if you were to pursue starting a social media marketing agency.
It is important to keep in mind that it isn't all fun, money, and free time. It is a service that you'll be providing and it will require your hard work and dedication.
What are your thoughts on starting an SMMA? Leave your feedback in the comments below.


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Q: Same query uses 2 different plans in 2 sessions I am running same query in 2 different DB sessions but it is ending up picking 2 different plans. One is faster and other takes hours.
Any ideas on how to make them use same plan:
This is Plan for faster query

This is plan for slower query

Only difference between 2 plans is order of collection iterator pickler fetch
EDIT:
Just to add more details, above query is not really a standard query as it uses Table function which accepts a dynamic array list.

A: You could create an optimizer extension to handle statistics for your collection, so the optimizer doesn't have to guess the value of its cardinality, selectivity and cost.
This can be done with the SQL statement ASSOCIATE STATISTICS:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TGSQL/tgsql_statscon.htm#TGSQL339
In order to implement the statistics collection interface, please have a look at:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ADDCI/ext_optimizer.htm#ADDCI2110
Another option is to use the undocumented CARDINALITY hint, which I would personally not recommend.
For an example of statistics association, please check the code below:
-- Creates a collection type
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE varchar2_ntt AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(4000);
/

-- Creates a function wrapper to the collection
CREATE FUNCTION collection_wrapper(
                p_collection IN varchar2_ntt
                ) RETURN varchar2_ntt IS
BEGIN
  RETURN p_collection;
END collection_wrapper;
/

-- Create an object type specification to handle statistics collection
-- on the function wrapper
CREATE TYPE collection_wrapper_ot AS OBJECT (
  dummy_attribute NUMBER,

  STATIC FUNCTION ODCIGetInterfaces (
                  p_interfaces OUT SYS.ODCIObjectList
                  ) RETURN NUMBER,

  STATIC FUNCTION ODCIStatsTableFunction (
                  p_function   IN  SYS.ODCIFuncInfo,
                  p_stats      OUT SYS.ODCITabFuncStats,
                  p_args       IN  SYS.ODCIArgDescList,
                  p_collection IN varchar2_ntt
                  ) RETURN NUMBER

);
/

-- Statistics interface implementation
-- Basically returns the count on the collection as its cardinality
CREATE TYPE BODY collection_wrapper_ot AS

   STATIC FUNCTION ODCIGetInterfaces (
                   p_interfaces OUT SYS.ODCIObjectList
                   ) RETURN NUMBER IS
   BEGIN
       p_interfaces := SYS.ODCIObjectList(
                           SYS.ODCIObject ('SYS', 'ODCISTATS2')
                           );
       RETURN ODCIConst.success;
   END ODCIGetInterfaces;

   STATIC FUNCTION ODCIStatsTableFunction (
                   p_function   IN  SYS.ODCIFuncInfo,
                   p_stats      OUT SYS.ODCITabFuncStats,
                   p_args       IN  SYS.ODCIArgDescList,
                   p_collection IN  varchar2_ntt
                   ) RETURN NUMBER IS
   BEGIN
      p_stats := SYS.ODCITabFuncStats(p_collection.COUNT);
      RETURN ODCIConst.success;
   END ODCIStatsTableFunction;

END;
/

-- Associate the statistics type with the function wrapper
ASSOCIATE STATISTICS WITH FUNCTIONS collection_wrapper USING collection_wrapper_ot;

Now you can check the effects on the execution plan:
SQL> set autotrace traceonly explain

SQL> SELECT *
  2  FROM   TABLE(varchar2_ntt('A','B','C'));

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 1748000095

--------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                             | Name | Rows  |
--------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                      |      |  8168 |
|   1 |  COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|      |       |
--------------------------------------------------------------

SQL> SELECT *
  2  FROM   TABLE(
  3            collection_wrapper(
  4               varchar2_ntt('A','B','C')));

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 4261576954

------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                         | Name               | Rows  |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                  |                    |     3 |
|   1 |  COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH| COLLECTION_WRAPPER |       |
------------------------------------------------------------------------

PS.: The code above was adapted from http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=427.

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Q: Why does replacing NaNs of a matrix not work with k(k==NaN) = SomeNumber , where k is the matrix to be operated Given a matrix:-
k = [1   2   3  ;
     4   5   6  ;
     7   8  NaN];

If I want to replace a number, say 2, with 0, I can use this: k(k==2) = 0 . It works correctly and gives the following expected answer:-
k =

     1     0     3
     4     5     6
     7     8   NaN

But why does this not work if I try to replace NaN, i.e. k(k==NaN) = 0 gives this:
k =

     1     2     3
     4     5     6
     7     8   NaN

Although I am able to achieve the desired result using: k(isnan(k))=0. But why does the first approach not work?

A: Because NaN==NaN is 0.
Not a number is equal to not a number? Not really, they are not numbers, but not necessarily the same thing. This is by design.
Is 0/0 == Inf-Inf ? Definetly not. Both are NaN though.
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    struct ExportSubDPatchSubset
    {
        ExportString    Name;
        INT             iOriginalMeshSubset;
        bool            bQuadPatches;
        DWORD           dwStartPatch;
        DWORD           dwPatchCount;
    };

    class ExportSubDProcessMesh
    {
    public:
        enum
        {
            MAX_POINT_COUNT = 32,
            MAX_QUAD_NEIGHBOR_COUNT = (MAX_POINT_COUNT - 4),
            MAX_TRIANGLE_NEIGHBOR_COUNT = (MAX_POINT_COUNT - 3)
        };
        struct PatchData
        {
            //UINT iMeshIndices[MAX_POINT_COUNT];
            BYTE bValence[4];
            BYTE bPrefix[4];
        };
        struct Triangle
        {
            INT iIndices[3];
            INT iMeshIndices[3];
            INT iNeighbors[MAX_TRIANGLE_NEIGHBOR_COUNT];
            BYTE bValence[3];
            BYTE bPrefix[3];
            INT iPolyIndex;
            INT iMeshSubsetIndex;
        };
        struct Quad
        {
            INT iIndices[4];
            INT iMeshIndices[4];
            INT iNeighbors[MAX_QUAD_NEIGHBOR_COUNT];
            BYTE bValence[4];
            BYTE bPrefix[4];
            INT iPolyIndex;
            INT iMeshSubsetIndex;
            bool bDegenerate;
        };
    protected:
        struct Edge
        {
            INT iTriangleIndex;
            INT iQuadIndex;
            INT iLocalIndex;
        };
        typedef std::unordered_map< UINT64, Edge > EdgeMap;

        std::vector< Triangle >             m_Triangles;
        std::vector< Quad >                 m_Quads;
        std::vector< DirectX::XMFLOAT3 >    m_Positions;
        std::vector< INT >                  m_MeshVertexToPositionMapping;
        std::vector< INT >                  m_PositionToMeshVertexMapping;
        std::vector< INT >                  m_PositionToDegeneratePositionMapping;
        std::vector< INT >                  m_IncidentBoundaryEdgesPerPosition;
        EdgeMap                             m_BoundaryEdges;

        ExportMesh*             m_pPolyMesh;
        ExportIB*               m_pQuadPatchIB;
        ExportIB*               m_pTrianglePatchIB;
        ExportVB*               m_pQuadPatchDataVB;
        ExportVB*               m_pTrianglePatchDataVB;

        std::vector< ExportSubDPatchSubset > m_Subsets;
    public:
        ExportSubDProcessMesh();
        void Initialize( ExportMesh* pMesh );

        void ByteSwap();

        size_t GetQuadPatchCount() const { return ( m_pQuadPatchDataVB ) ? m_pQuadPatchDataVB->GetVertexCount() : 0; }
        ExportVB* GetQuadPatchDataVB() const { return m_pQuadPatchDataVB; }
        ExportIB* GetQuadPatchIB() const { return m_pQuadPatchIB; }
        size_t GetTrianglePatchCount() const { return ( m_pTrianglePatchDataVB ) ? m_pTrianglePatchDataVB->GetVertexCount() : 0; }
        ExportVB* GetTrianglePatchDataVB() const { return m_pTrianglePatchDataVB; }
        ExportIB* GetTriPatchIB() const { return m_pTrianglePatchIB; }

        size_t GetSubsetCount() const { return m_Subsets.size(); }
        ExportSubDPatchSubset* GetSubset( size_t dwIndex ) { return &m_Subsets[dwIndex]; }
        ExportSubDPatchSubset* FindSubset( ExportString strName );

        static const D3DVERTEXELEMENT9* GetPatchDataDecl();
        static DWORD GetPatchDataDeclElementCount();

    protected:
        void BuildMesh();
        INT CreateOrAddPosition( const DirectX::XMFLOAT3& vPosition, INT iMeshVertexIndex );
        void AddTriangle( INT iPolyIndex, INT iSubsetIndex, const INT* pIndices, const INT* pMeshIndices );
        void AddQuad( INT iPolyIndex,  INT iSubsetIndex, const INT* pIndices, const INT* pMeshIndices );

        void BuildBoundaryEdgeTable();
        INT AddOrRemoveEdge( INT iPositionIndexA, INT iPositionIndexB, INT iTriangleIndex, INT iQuadIndex, INT iLocalIndex );

        void CreateDegenerateGeometry();
        INT CreateOrAddDegeneratePosition( INT iPositionIndex );

        void ComputeAdjacency();
        void ComputeTriangleAdjacency( const INT iTriangleIndex );
        void ComputeQuadAdjacency( const INT iQuadIndex );
        INT ExecuteSweep( INT iPivotPositionIndex, INT iSweepPositionIndex, INT iStopPositionIndex, INT iStartQuadIndex, INT iStartTriangleIndex, std::vector<INT>& Neighbors );
        INT FindTriangleWithEdge( INT iStartPositionIndex, INT iEndPositionIndex, INT iExcludeThisTriangle );
        INT FindQuadWithEdge( INT iStartPositionIndex, INT iEndPositionIndex, INT iExcludeThisQuad );
        INT FindLocalIndexInTriangle( INT iTriangleIndex, INT iPositionIndex );
        INT FindLocalIndexInQuad( INT iQuadIndex, INT iPositionIndex );
        INT GetNextPositionIndexInTriangle( INT iTriangleIndex, INT iPivotPositionIndex, INT iSweepPositionIndex );
        INT GetNextPositionIndexInQuad( INT iQuadIndex, INT iPivotPositionIndex, INT iSweepPositionIndex );
        INT GetOppositePositionIndexInQuad( INT iQuadIndex, INT iPositionIndex );

        void RemoveValenceTwoQuads( std::deque<INT>& BadQuads );

        DirectX::XMFLOAT3 GetQuadCenter( INT iQuadIndex );

        void SortPatches();

        void BuildQuadPatchBuffer();
        void BuildTriPatchBuffer();

        void ConvertSubsets();

        void ClearIntermediateBuffers();
    };
}

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For $230 the NZXT HALE90 v2 1000W PSU needs to perform well to justify the price, especially as the 1200W model currently costs the same amount. [H]ard|OCP has the tools to test this PSU to the limits and that is exactly what they did; the unit received a passing mark but no award as the quality of it's voltage regulation was right in the middle of the pack, no better nor worse than the competition. It is a very efficient PSU if that is one of your prerequisites, it is rather attractive and offers a large selection of modular cabling. Check out the full review for the exact specifications.
"The new NZXT HALE90 v2 1000 watt computer power supply has more than a few marketed points that talk it up like; clean currents, rock steady performance, eccentric design, and infused design elements. All that aside, we will put it through our brutal testing suite and find out if it is worth your hard earned cash."
It is never a good sign when a company does not want to send their hardware to review sites for testing and the ECGA superNOVA NEX1500 Classified PSU is no exception. [H] purchased one out of pocket to test and they what they saw did not impress them very much. One of the less than useful features they found was on the 12V rail, or rather on the eight 12V rails, each of which is rated at 20A. The connectors are certainly impressive, with 16 PCIe connectors, 12 SATA and a very thick power cord, which of course leads to a lot of cable clutter. Add to that the mislabelled PCIe lines and the need to register a user to be able to download the software to try to fix that problem and you can see why [H] failed this drive. At least it didn't burst into flames in the torture test, although it may have caused some hearing loss.
"EVGA did not want to send us one of its 1500W PSU beasts to review, so we went out and bought the $450 behemoth so we could put it through the HardOCP PSU grinder. EVGA clearly states that NEX1500 PSU is all about "no compromises," but we suggest that compromises are exactly what you will be making; more than a few too."
Seasonic's new X-1250 PSU can provide 1250W of power, just as the name suggests, with up to 104 amps to the 12V rail which should provide enough power for even the most power hungry GPUs. Instead of going with a single rail design Seasonic chose to provide 4 rails so you should ensure to know which plugs you are using. It passed all of [H]ard|OCP's torture tests with flying colours, making it one of the better kilowatt ckas PSUs they have had the pleasure of testing and when you consider the price, with or without the rebate, it is a perfect choice for users building a system with multiple GPUs.
"Seasonic makes some of the best enthusiast computer power supplies in the world. It has long produced some of the cleanest power producing PSUs along with being some of the quietest on the market. The new fully modular X-1250 sports many enthusiast features and touts gold level efficiency. Is this new X-1250 worthy?"
If the 1500W EVGA SuperNova PSU that Lee recently reviewed was a little too much for you then how about the Platimax 1350W from Enermax? It sports six 12V rails, two at 20A and the remaining at 30A, a mere eight 6+2 pin PCIe power connectors and 14 SATA power connectors. This PSU is the highest rated 80 Plus Platinum PSU [H]ard|OCP has seen, as well as the highest from Enermax and they were not disappointed. While it shared its design with the MaxRevo 1500W which left [H] a little disappointed, the Enermax implementation was superior and this PSU walked away with an Editor's Choice.
"Enermax is a long standing quality desktop PSU company. It not only specifies and designs power supplies it is one of the few companies that actually build enthusiast PSUs. Enermax today moves it 1350 watt giant into "Platinum" efficiency territory with the new Platimax 1350W."
EVGA's SuperNOVA NEX1500 Classified 1500W PSU is more than just a source of power that would satisfy even a certain stand up comedian turned TV star, it also features some rather interesting extras. Some of the features bear a resemblance to those found on the Corsair AX1200i Digital ATX 1200W which Lee reviewed a short while ago, like programmable rails and software which allows monitoring and control of certain aspects of the PSU. While the 10 year warranty is a good sign, TechPowerUp! found a few questionable results from the tests they ran.
"EVGA's new SuperNOVA NEX1500 power supply packs a great deal of features with the most fascinating being its enormous capacity, reaching 1500 W and up to 1650 W, when overclock mode is enabled. Combined with software monitoring and control, the fully modular design and the sleeved cables this is a PSU enthusiast's dream come true."
The reason that Corsair's new Professional Series AX1200i is called a digital power supply is due to the presence of a digital signal processor inside the PSU. The advantages are likely to due with the reduced complexity of the internal design than due to the DSP being a miracle, however there is more to it than just smooth voltages. With the USB Corsair Link interface you can use the bundled software to monitor the three main voltage rails, the 24-pin connector's 12V line, the AC voltage at the wall socket and there are current trackers for all of the PCIe power connectors as well. If you obsess over power management and happen to need more than a kilowatt of power, check out Corsair's latest offering at The Tech Report.
"Corsair's new Professional Series AX1200i uses digital circuitry to convert AC to DC power. We take a quick look at the PSU and the software enabled by its DSP."
With a half dozen modified 8-pin PCI-Express connectors, 8 Molex connectors, and 11 SATA connectors the XFX ProSeries 1000W PSU will handle the needs of a powerful system. The interior components are very similar to the Seasonic Platinum 1000W which is one of [H]ard|OCP's favourites. As with the Seasonic, the XFX PSU carries an 80 Plus Platinum rating which testing proved to be essentially accurate as [H] was not going to quibble about a 0.6% difference on their review model. You have to pay a bit more for this PSU but if you want to pick up a model that won [H]'s Editor's Choice and Gold Award then this PSU is a sure bet.
"XFX has a tremendously impressive track record here at HardOCP when it comes to enthusiast class PSUs. To date, four XFX PSU reviews, three Gold and one Silver Editor's Choice Awards. Its new 1KW ProSeries PSU features no wires! No not like that, but rather on the inside. Let's see if SolidLink Technology is award worthy."
As the name implies, the FSP AURUM PRO GOLD 1200 PSU's efficiency is rated 80 Plus Gold and is capable of an impressive 100A on its single 12V rail. [H]ard|OCP was glad to see that FSP has increased the quality of materials they use in constructing the PSU. This has paid off as the PSU received a Silver Award after passing their torture tests.
"'AURUM' means gold. So today we are showing you the "Gold Pro Gold" from FSP. That is a big name to stand behind. Once past the marketing though, the Aurum Pro Gold looks like a very solid and efficient single rail power supply for the enthusiast needing a heaping supply of wattage in a snazzy looking PSU."


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Home / Publications / Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Interim Report 127) / 18. Judicial Review / Protections from statutory encroachment
18.7 The principle of legality provides protection to judicial review.[9] When interpreting a statute, courts will presume that Parliament did not intend to restrict access to the courts, unless this intention was made unambiguously clear.[10] For example, in Magrath v Goldsborough Mort & Co Ltd, Dixon J said:
The general rule is that statutes are not to be interpreted as depriving superior Courts of power to prevent an unauthorized assumption of jurisdiction unless an intention to do so appears clearly and unmistakably.[11]
18.8 In Public Service Association (SA) v Federated Clerks' Union, Dawson and Gaudron JJ said:
Privative clauses… are construed by reference to a presumption that the legislature does not intend to deprive the citizen of access to the courts, other than to the extent expressly stated or necessarily to be implied.[12]
18.9 Dawson and Gaudron JJ went on to say:
Thus, a clause which is expressed only in general terms may be construed so as to preserve the ordinary jurisdiction of a superior court to grant relief by way of the prerogative writs of mandamus or prohibition in the case of jurisdictional error constituted by failure to exercise jurisdiction or by an act in excess of jurisdiction.[13]
18.10 Hockey v Yelland also concerned a privative clause—specifically, a Queensland statute that provided that determinations by a medical board 'shall be final and conclusive' and the claimant 'shall have no right to have any of those matters heard and determined by an Industrial Magistrate, or, by way of appeal or otherwise, by any Court or judicial tribunal whatsoever'.[14] Gibbs CJ said that this provision did not 'oust the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to issue writs of certiorari':
It is a well recognized principle that the subject's right of recourse to the courts is not to be taken away except by clear words… The provision that the board's determination shall be final and conclusive is not enough to exclude certiorari… The words of the further provision… are in my opinion quite inapt to take away from the Court its power to issue certiorari for error of law on the face of the record.[15]
18.11 Where a statute purports to make it 'unambiguously clear' that Parliament intends to restrict access to the courts, the Constitution provides further protection. It provides for an 'entrenched minimum provision of judicial review',[16] which cannot be removed by statute. Section 75(v) of the Constitution provides that the High Court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters 'in which a writ of Mandamus or prohibition or an injunction is sought against an officer of the Commonwealth'.[17] Gleeson CJ said that this provision 'secures a basic element of the rule of law':
The jurisdiction of the Court to require officers of the Commonwealth to act within the law cannot be taken away by Parliament. Within the limits of its legislative capacity, which are themselves set by the Constitution, Parliament may enact the law to which officers of the Commonwealth must conform. If the law imposes a duty, mandamus may issue to compel performance of that duty. If the law confers power or jurisdiction, prohibition may issue to prevent excess of power or jurisdiction. An injunction may issue to restrain unlawful behaviour. Parliament may create, and define, the duty, or the power, or the jurisdiction, and determine the content of the law to be obeyed. But it cannot deprive this Court of its constitutional jurisdiction to enforce the law so enacted.[18]
18.12 In light of this constitutional jurisdiction, courts may construe privative clauses much more narrowly than the text of the provision suggests. So much more narrowly in fact, that such clauses may sometimes be largely or even entirely deprived of effect.[19] The courts have justified such interpretive approaches by reference to the assumption that legislation should, as far as reasonably possible, be interpreted in a way that favours constitutional validity.[20]
Momcilovic v The Queen (2011) 245 CLR 1, [43]–[44] (French CJ).
Magrath v Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd (1932) 47 CLR 121, 134.
Public Service Association (SA) v Federated Clerks' Union of Australia (1991) 173 CLR 132, 160 (Dawson and Gaudron JJ). Quoted with approval in Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476, [30]–[32] (Gleeson CJ).
Public Service Association (SA) v Federated Clerks' Union of Australia (1991) 173 CLR 132, [18] (Dawson and Gaudron JJ).
Workers' Compensation Act 1916 (Qld) (repealed), quoted in Hockey v Yelland (1984) 157 CLR 124, 128 (Gibbs CJ).
Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476, [103].
Australian Constitution s 75(v).
Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476, [5] (Gleeson CJ).
See, eg, Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476. Section 474 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) purports to exclude challenging, appealing, reviewing, quashing or any calling into question a 'privative clause decision'. It also purports to exclude prohibition, mandamus, injunction, declaration or certiorari as a remedy in any court. In Plaintiff S157/2002 the High Court unanimously rejected the literal interpretation, and held that the writs of mandamus and prohibition were available for decisions involving jurisdictional error.
The long history of authority to this effect was noted in Ibid [71] (Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby and Hayne JJ). While this approach may lead the courts to interpret privative clauses in a manner that gives them very limited scope, alternative approaches may be more likely to require courts to find that a privative clause was invalid on constitutional grounds. Once this possibility is recognised, the value of interpretive approaches that enable some effect to be given to privative clauses can be understood.


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Young leader fights to save his friend from deportation
14-year-old high school student Damian Hill first met Emeline Yuwono in the back lane of his Randwick home 2 years ago. He quickly learned that 11-year-old Emeline had autism and her mother Mei Tieng Lim had brought her to Australia from Indonesia for care and treatment that is not available in their home of North Sumatra. Despite tourist visas and many unsuccessful attempts to stay in Australia, Emeline and her mother now face deportation.
It saddened Damian to hear about Emeline's life before coming to Australia. Mei told him that she used to have to put Emeline in an orphanage while she went to work and that she would often find her daughter badly treated and covered in scabies and lice when she returned to pick her up. Emeline's relatives often believed she was possessed by a spirit due to their lack of education surrounding her condition.
Damian says Emeline has improved so much since being in Australia. She is now toilet trained and better able to communicate. She laughs often and has formed a strong bond with Damian's dog Charlie – something he believes has had a significant impact on her learning and progress.
It does not come as a surprise that Damian was deeply angered by the uncertainty surrounding Emeline's future. There was no question about it; he had to do something to help. It was as simple as that. But what could he do to help his friend and her mother stay in Australia?
"Dad and I discussed it over dinner one night and he helped me put together a plan of action. It wasn't going to be easy - not only did we need to learn more about the rules relating to Mei and Emelines' case, we also needed the support of prominent locals if we wanted the campaign to have any chance of influencing the Minister for Immigration."
Damian urged people to sign an online petition that had been set up in support of Emeline and her mother. He began approaching members of the local churches, politicians and people throughout the local community to try and garner support. He used Facebook as a way to spread news of his work with family and friends and more recently has been able to boost some serious online support for the case thanks to the publicity generate by an SBS news piece. The petition now has over 20,0000 signatures to date. It is his hope that the Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton will grant a ministerial intervention.
"My dad has always encouraged me to help those in need of assistance, says Damian. "I have never been scared because I know this is such a worthy cause. I just want Emeline and Mei to enjoy a life that doesn't involve anywhere near as much hardship as they had previously endured."
Damian's actions have raised some big questions about the treatment of people with disabilities who are seeking government protection and generated some serious conversations surrounding the issue within the public at a national level. However, what is truly remarkable in this instance is the genuine compassion and empathy Damian has shown for his friend. He saw something he believed to be unfair or unjust and decided to act. This desire to act just doesn't come from nothing, it comes from a deep sense of empathy and genuine compassion – traits that many would say are the most important attributes of all great leaders, and certainly ones that must be nurtured from a young age! There is no doubt in our minds that this has happened in Damian's case.
Despite the large public response to Damian's plea, The Minister has not yet responded to the second application for Mei and Emeline to stay in Australia. Damian still remains optimistic.
"If you are truly genuine about helping someone or fighting for an issue you believe and are willing to put in the necessary effort, then nothing is unachievable."
If you would like to support Damian's case and sign the petition, click here.
STORY UPDATE: Representations from members of the local community have been successful and we have been advised the mother and daughter have been granted a medical treatment visa and will be able to stay for at least 8 years.
Mei Tieng Lim and her autistic daughter Emeline Yuwono with supporter, Damien Hill. Source: News Corp Australia
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Through the official Steam page of the game, From Software and Activision have revealed the system requirements in order to properly play the PC version of the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice video game.
Happily, as you can see below, the system requirements are very accessible even for gamers with older computers.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will come out on the market on March 22, 2019 for PlayStation 4, PC ( via the Steam gaming platform ) and Xbox One.


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Antifa riots may be part of Democrat power grab: Devine
By Miranda Devine
September 6, 2020 | 10:39pm	| Updated September 7, 2020 | 3:26pm
Demonstrators clash with police as they protest the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester. James Keivom
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Imagine you were at a restaurant and BLM-Antifa protesters descended on you, threw your food on the ground, broke plates, overturned chairs, tossed a potted plant into your oyster platter and forced you to leave.
That's what happened in upstate Rochester Friday night at the Ox and Stone, and across the road at Swan Dive, when hundreds of protesters chanting "Black lives matter" chased off frightened diners.
"We're shutting your party down," a woman shouts in footage aired by FreedomNews TV.
The oyster-platter incident reportedly occurred at Korean steakhouse Cote in the Flatiron District. Protesters brandishing a "Death to America" anarchist banner and chanting "Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground" left a trail of destruction in the city Friday night.
One of those arrested for felony rioting was wealthy Upper East Side college student Clara Kraebber, 20, a member of the Young Democrats.
Whether or not all rioters are Democratic voters, they increasingly are associated with Joe Biden's campaign in the minds of voters who fear violence is coming to their suburb.
This rolling campaign of anti-police street violence is killing Biden's bid for the presidency — just look at private polling in crucial swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where law and order has become a decisive issue.
So why don't Democratic leaders do more to condemn the violence and call for calm?
To understand their inaction, you need to step back and see street violence as one element of a coordinated "playbook" to dislodge President Trump, regardless of the outcome of the election.
This is the thesis of political theorist Dr. Darren Beattie, a former Duke University professor and White House official.
The playbook is straight from the strategies the US government has deployed in so-called "Color Revolutions" in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine or Belarus, to remove "authoritarian" leaders deemed hostile to American interests.
In a series of articles at Revolver.news, Beattie's thesis provides a compelling comparison between Deep State efforts to remove President Trump and techniques used by the State Department, covert agencies and allied NGOs to influence, or overturn, elections in foreign countries.
BLM-Antifa's "mostly peaceful protests" are America's version of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, where civil unrest was fomented on the streets to oust a Kremlin-backed authoritarian.
In an interview, Beattie noted "strong parallels" between "color revolutions" overseas and the "sustained coordinated coup against Trump" — from the Russia collusion hoax to his impeachment over Ukraine.
"The very same regime change professionals … assigned to overthrow 'authoritarians' in Eastern Europe are the ones running this operation against Trump. It is the same playbook run by the same people."
The Color Revolution playbook starts by creating the narrative of an authoritarian, illegitimate leader. Then you foment unrest on the streets, aimed at provoking an authoritarian crackdown that can be used to mobilize further unrest.
You undermine people's faith in the election process, setting up a contested outcome that turns into street fighting.
At the same time, you wage relentless "lawfare" to contest ballots. Ultimately the military may be called upon to dislodge the incumbent.
An added twist for America is that Democrats have used the pandemic to institute mass, unsolicited mail-in ballots, which historically are open to fraud and coercion, an experiment which will leave the election result undecided on Nov. 3.
It would be easy to dismiss Beattie's idea as a wild conspiracy theory, except anti-Trump forces are doing their best to play along.
Take the Transition Integrity Project, a bipartisan war-gaming exercise created by academics, former Clinton and Obama operatives, never-Trumper Republicans, journalists and diplomats, "out of concern that the Trump administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process."
Project co-founder Rosa Brooks, former special counsel at the George Soros-linked Open Society Foundations in New York, laid out four scenarios for the election: a big Biden win; a narrow Biden win; a period of extended uncertainty as in 2000; and a Trump Electoral College win but popular vote loss, as in 2016.
Democrats determined to treat November's election as illegitimate — unless they win
A recent deep dive in the Washington Post, "What's the...
Only with the scenario in which Biden wins an overwhelming victory is there a "relatively orderly transfer of power," Brooks wrote last week in the Washington Post.
"Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis … massive disinformation campaigns, violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse."
Straight out of the Color Revolution playbook.
The aim is to lay the groundwork to reject the election results if Trump wins, with the expectation that he will not concede defeat and will have to be dislodged by military means.
Again, this sounds insane, I know.
But this is the scenario posed by two retired Army officers, John Nagl and Paul Yingling, in a respectable military publication, Defense One, last month. In an open letter to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, they suggested the 82nd Airborne could be used to remove Trump "by force" from the White House in January.
Hillary Clinton echoed the sentiment: "Biden should not concede under any circumstances." Biden has said he is "absolutely convinced" the military would "escort" Trump from the White House if he refused to leave office.
The narrative grew so persistent that Milley felt compelled to issue a letter to Congress declaring the military will not help settle disputes if the election results are contested.
Attorney General Bill Barr warned on CNN last week that the Democrats' push for unsolicited mail-in ballots is "playing with fire" in our divided country.
To put it mildly.
But, apart from complaining, what is the government going to do about it?
In defense of Assange
Julian Assange's extradition hearing in London starts this week as he fights espionage charges in the United States.
But if Trump is considering pardoning Edward Snowden, as he suggests, the case is even stronger to go easy on the WikiLeaks founder.
Snowden was an intelligence contractor who leaked information showing the National Security Agency was spying on US citizens during the Bush and Obama administrations.
The leak was in the public interest, but Snowden betrayed his employer.
Assange, on the other hand, merely published the information he received from jailed former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
It was the same when WikiLeaks published the DNC emails that caused such a stir in the 2016 campaign. Dems insisted the Russians hacked the emails, while others suggested it was an inside leak.
"Julian has always maintained that the source of the DNC emails was not a state actor," Assange's mother, Christine, told me Saturday.
Given what we have learned during Russiagate about the compromised state of our intelligence agencies, Assange deserves a medal rather than jail.
That's relief?!
It has killed 24,000 New Yorkers, thrown hundreds of thousands out of work and plunged the city into despair.
But Chirlane McCray was relieved when the pandemic erupted because she got a break from her arduous duties as the city's first lady.
"I think I went from relief from not having to do the regular schedule because you know a lot of what I do, my husband does, we do events," she said Friday at a virtual event.
How selfish do you have to be to think like that, and how tactless to admit it?
Hey, Chirlane, take a load off. The city would be better off if you and your gormless husband took a permanent break.
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Court halts DNR timber sales in Jefferson County
Environmental groups praise ruling, say it will change process
by Peter Segall
Friday, October 28, 2022 1:30am
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PORT TOWNSEND — A Jefferson County Superior Court judge has ruled against the state Department of Natural Resources in a case plaintiffs say will have broad implications for how the agency manages its forests.
Superior Court Judge Keith Harper ruled Wednesday in favor of plaintiffs Center for Sustainable Economy and Save the Olympic Peninsula who argued Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had violated the state Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider the impacts of climate change from two timber sales in the county.
"This ruling will help turn things around by requiring DNR to report greenhouse gas emissions associated with logging and evaluate the extent to which clearcutting is making the land hotter, drier, and more susceptible to wildfires," said John Talberth, president of CSE, in a statement.
According to CSE's initial complaint, in early 2022, the state Board of Natural Resources authorized two timber sales in Jefferson County amounting to 319 acres of public land for timber harvest.
In a Determination of Non-Significance, the department said "at this time, the SEPA Environmental Checklist does not include analysis of climate impacts. The topic of climate impacts is an evolving issue as new science emerges and agencies work to include that new science in their work."
The review said state regulations likely would be updated once the state Department of Ecology drafts more meaningful criteria for assessing climate change in the SEPA process.
DNR Acting Deputy Supervisor for State Uplands Duane Emmons said in an email that the department did not overlook the impacts of timber harvest on the environment and said recent studies have shown the state carbon sequestration program accommodates for the carbon released by timber harvests.
"Our SEPA checklist for the timber sales being challenged did not incorporate that scientific work," Emmons said, referring to the sequestration data. "Therefore the court invalidated the SEPA checklist and directed DNR to redo its analysis."
Emmons said DNR will evaluate the court's ruling and revise its SEPA documentation for the timber sales, "making sure we fully incorporate the work our scientists have conducted over the years related to carbon and climate change."
However, CSE was able to argue that disclosure of environmental impacts was required in the SEPA process and that the two timber sales required more recent environmental impact statements than those DNR had cited.
"DNR did not take a searching, realistic look at the potential hazards and, with reasoned thought and analysis, candidly and methodically addressed those concerns," CSE argued. "DNR did not conduct its analysis with up-to-date information that accurately reflects the climate-related impacts of the Projects."
A written decision for the case is still being drafted, but Harper ruled in favor of the petitioners Wednesday, according to Jefferson County Deputy Clerk Siri Johnson.
The ruling not only halted the two planned timber harvests, but plaintiffs in the case say the ruling will have significant impacts on how DNR manages its forests.
"This decision is going to force a big change in how DNR operates," said Ron Richards, chair of Save the Olympic Peninsula, one of the litigants. "They're going to have to think before they cut, which they haven't been doing that at the county level."
Richards — a Clallam County resident and former county commissioner — said with the new ruling, DNR would have to look at alternative ways of managing public lands other than timber harvests.
Timber harvests release a large amount of carbon, Richards said, and leave cleared land more prone to heating from the sun, leading to drier conditions and wildfires.
"Logging is the No. 1 emitter of carbon in Jefferson County," Richards said, referring to a 2020 inventory of greenhouse gases in the county. "If you don't log, there's a real positive effect in combating climate change."
Reporter Peter Segall can be reached at peter.segall@peninsuladailynews.com.
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Stan Wawrinka Wins Second Title of 2016 at Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Tennis - February 29, 2016
Stan Wawrinka (VCORE Duel G 97, POWER CUSHION ECLIPSION) brilliantly seized his second title of the season at this year's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in a thrilling final match against 30-year-old Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.
This victory brings Stan to a 9-match winning streak in finals, standing alongside athletes like Novak Djokovic and Tommy Haas. The brilliant win comes upon the Swiss World No. 4's change to the new VCORE Duel G racquet and POWER CUSHION ECLIPSION shoes. The Stanimal's new racquet has been specifically designed to generate ferocious spin, and keeps speed and power on the ball even after the bounce. His ECLIPSION shoes provide robust support around the sides of the foot mixed with potent flex at the top for keen control on footwork. You can get the champ's thoughts on his shoes in this new video here, as well as an in-depth look into the ECLIPSION's technology here.
Despite initially being lead, set 1 saw the Swiss make a comeback, striking off two aces to eventually secure the set with a break point against the Cypriot. A neck-and-neck affair until the very end, the second set ran into an epic, nail-biting tiebreaker. With the match's final score coming to a bewildering 6-4, 7-6(13), Stan resisted five set points to clinch victory.
"I'm really happy to have another trophy. It's amazing feeling, especially that today I was playing some really good tennis. So far it's been some amazing year. I'm playing my best tennis since few years now," commented Stan the Man on the official Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships website.
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[2] Stan Wawrinka (VCORE Duel G 97, POWER CUSHION ECLIPSION)(SUI) def. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-4, 7-6 (13)


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How do you regain your confidence? Viv talks to the author, TV presenter, social media influencer and founder of fashion line Joanie, Dawn O'Porter, on finding your voice again. Dawn, who lives in LA with her husband the actor Chris O'Dowd and their two children, tells Viv with frank honesty about a dark time in her life when her TV career nosedived, how she lost her confidence and eventually wrote her way out of it. She shares her tips about holding onto self-worth when things aren't going the way you want them to. She urges listeners to give themselves credit for the things that are going right – a relationship, friendships, children, work - rather than obsessing over what is going wrong. Her advice for owning the room is cut yourself some slack and allow yourself to draw strength from what is good. And be prepared to take a different direction if the one you planned has taken you out of the room entirely. As she tells Viv, the path doesn't go in one direction and you may own and lose and own the room again. Find out more about Dawn O'Porter's latest novel, Cat Lady. A new updated edition of Viv's book, How to Own the Room is out now. @vivgroskop
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How can we thrive wearing many hats? Viv talks to the author and co-founder and President of the Women's Equality Party, Catherine Mayer, about shifting emphasis to achieve greatest effect. Catherine shares how having an awareness of your audience and the room you're in can make it a good...
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In this thesis, a demand elasticity model is developed and tested for the dispatch of high voltage power systems and microgrids. The price obtained from dispatching a network in a base-case scenario is used as input to a price-elastic demand model. This demand model is then used to determine the price-responsive demand for the next iteration, assuming that the load schedule is defined a day-ahead. Using this scheme, trends for demand, hourly prices, and total operation costs for a system can be obtained to study the impact of demand response on unit commitment and dispatch of distributed energy resources. This way, the effect on the scheduling of dispatchable generators and energy storage systems can be analyzed with respect to price-elastic loads. The results for a test power system and a benchmark microgrid show that as the demand is more elastic, the longer it takes for the dispatch to converge to a final condition. The 24-hour model eventually converges to a steady state, with prices and costs at their lowest values for different scenarios, which is good for most system participants and desirable in a market environment, thus highlighting the importance of price-responsive loads in electricity markets.