Despite concerns about the safety of and costs of football, wrestling and other sports programs, a national survey of 706 adults has found substantial agreement that interscholastic athletics make contributions that no other school programs offer.
About 79 percent of those surveyed said they think high schools do not spend too much money on interscholastic sports programs, according to the poll, which was conducted last month for the newspaper USA Today. Further-more, almost 70 percent said sports teach students lessons they would not learn in other school programs.
But about 62 percent of the adults polled said schools placed too much pressure on athletes.
Ninety-three percent said they would encourage their children to join a swimming team. Eighty-nine percent said they would encourage their children to play baseball and tennis; 87 percent, basketball; 53 percent, football; and 48 percent, wrestling.
President Reagan will not seek substantial changes in the Head Start and National School Lunch Program in his fiscal 1985 budget, according to Administration sources.
There will be "no dramatic change in policy" on the funding of the two programs for low-income students, an official familiar with the programs said.
For the current fiscal year, the Congress appropriated $995.7 million for Head Start, a program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services that helps community groups offer services for low-income, preschool chil-dren and their families. The Reagan Administration had sought an appropriation of $963.3 million for the program.
The National School Lunch Program, which is administered by the Agriculture Department and provides free, reduced-price, and full-price school lunches, is funded at $3.28 billion for the current fiscal year, which runs through next Sept. 30. The Reagan Administration, in its budget proposal for the current fiscal year, had sought $2.93 billion for the program.
Although the nation's scientific community is expected to be affected by the American withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, little, if any, effect will be felt in the education community, accord-ing to sources familiar with the agency.
The Reagan Administration recently informed the organization, known as unesco, of its intent to withdraw at the end of 1984, an action that will cost unesco one-fourth of its $374-million annual budget. The Administration, in its formal statement, accused unesco of "politiciz[ing] every subject it deals with," and exhibiting "a hostility toward the basic institutions of a free society." unesco was established in 1945 as an arm of the United Nations.
The agency's education programs did not directly involve the U.S., although American teachers' unions occasionally participated through their international affiliations, according to David Dorn of the American Federation of Teachers. Chester E. Finn Jr., a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University who was a delegate to a unesco education meeting last year, said U.S. schools "will not lose anything" as a result of the withdrawal.
The Christian school in Nebraska that has been the focus of a bitter fight over the state's right to regulate private schools last week opened in defiance of a court order, and authorities would not say whether they would further prosecute school leaders.
The Faith Christian School in Louisville started its winter session with 27 students in attendance. The Cass County Court has ordered the school to close unless it complies with state certification regulations.
The opening of the school came on the heels of demonstrations by Christian-school supporters across the country. One group of about 100 people demonstrated last month in front of the White House. The group left a petition asking President Reagan to intervene in the controversy.
Seven fathers of Faith Christian School students have been jailed for contempt of court since Nov. 23 for refusing to testify in court to explain their involvement with the school. Eight women and the leader of the church school are reported to be staying in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during the controversy.
The leader of the school, the Rev. Everett Sileven, is being sought by the county court. He is reported to have given speeches in Iowa and Alabama.
Thirteen other Christian schools in the state are operating without state-certified teachers, according to press reports, but no other school officials have been jailed in the cases. All of those schools are involved in litigation, the reports said.
Merit pay, a longer school year, competency testing, and increased discipline were among a series of reform proposals announced by the Education Task Force of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce last month.
The proposals, which will be submitted to the 1984 General Assembly this month, were written by the seven-member panel charged with updating the Chamber's 1972 education policy, according to William Styring, a staff executive.
Pay for excellence for teachers, a concept the panel said should not be "bargainable."
An appointed state superintendent of public instruction. The superintendency is now an elected position.
A longer school year. Indiana currently requires students to attend school 175 days of the year. Although the panel did not recommend a specific number of days, Mr. Styring said schools should make sure students are attending class all 175 days. A typical school year, he said, is usually closer to 170 days due to missed days that are not made up and the scheduling of half days at the beginning of the school year.
A recognition of the importance of the basic structure and attitudes of education.
Communities, the panel recommended, should support higher expectations for students and stronger classroom discipline.
Competency testing for both students and entry-level teachers. The panel did not recommend specific tests or grade levels, but did maintain that the current lack of competency testing for teachers and standardized statewide pupil testing should be remedied.
A plan to finance elementary and secondary education in Utah with proceeds from a state trust fund will be introduced in the Utah legislature this month.
The plan would require the state to put its revenues from the use of state lands, including mineral-lease funds and trespass and grazing-rights fees, into a trust fund for education each year, rather than putting the money directly into the state school fund.
Placing those revenues--about $25 million annually--in a trust fund eventually will generate enough income to fund the state's entire education budget, according to Representative Ervin Skousen, the Salt Lake City Republican who is sponsoring the bill.
Although it would take "75 to 100 years" before interest from the trust fund could finance the state's entire education budget, Representative Skousen estimates that the plan would pay for itself after about 10 years. The state legislature would have to make up the difference in state-lands revenues during that time, he added.
Ultimately, the plan would elimi-nate property taxation for education and cut the tax bill of Utah citizens in half, Representative Skousen said.
Gov. Scott M. Matheson is in favor of the trust-fund plan, aides said, and according to Representative Skousen, the plan has broad-based support in the capital.
"I have support from every organization in education, as well as in government," he said. "The state board [of education] actually was thinking of the same thing."
The California State Library in Sacramento released $2.5 million in federal grants last month to finance a statewide literacy campaign. The funding measure represents the first time a state library has designated federal library funds for such a project.
Twenty-eight libraries that applied for project funding under the Library Services and Construction Act will share the grant to develop local adult-literacy campaigns, according to Gail McGovern, a library consultant. Scheduled to begin immediately and end in September, the programs include studies of com-puter-assisted audio-visual methods, community learning centers, and literacy in employment-training programs, according to Carmela Ruby, a consultant for the California Literacy Campaign.
The campaigns are directed at adults who are not otherwise being served by the current educational system, Ms. Ruby explained. Some 2.5 million California adults cannot read and write English at the 4th-grade level, and 6 million of the state's 17.3 million adults do not have a high-school diploma.
The Minnesota State Board of Education last month recommended that the number of required high-school academic courses that schools offer be increased.
In a presentation to the Minnesota Senate Education Committee, William Ridley, board chairman, presented a revised curriculum plan in which high schools would be required to offer at least five year-long courses in English; four years each of mathematics, science, and social studies; two years each of foreign language, music, and visual arts; and one year of industrial arts.
In addition, according to the board's proposal, high schools would be required to provide students with "information-technology literacy" courses and guidance for making course choices, according to Mr. Ridley.
Minnesota's 437 districts are currently required to provide those courses required for graduation--four years of English, three years of social studies, and one-year courses in science and mathematics.
The board's recommendations--which are part of a long-term goal to create individualized education plans for every student by 1990--would not change graduation requirements, but "simply mean schools must offer those courses," Mr. Ridley explained.
Public hearings on the proposed curriculum plan are scheduled to begin in March, Mr. Ridley said. The proposal does not require legislative approval to become law.
Also speaking before the Senate committee, Education Commissioner Ruth Randall presented recommendations for restructuring the state's school system. Ms. Randall advocates that students be moved from one grade to the next according to achievement instead of age, and that competency tests be established to set promotions and graduation standards, according to an education department spokesman.
An Oregon public-school teacher was suspended with pay last month for wearing articles of religious clothing while teaching.
The Eugene School Board voted unanimously to suspend Karta Kaur Khalsa in accordance with a state law that prohibits teachers from wearing religious clothing in the classroom.
Ms. Khalsa is a member of the Sikh faith, an Indian religion, and was wearing a turban and other white clothing--the traditional dress of her religion--to school.
A lawsuit against the school board would be "premature," said Rohn Roberts, Ms. Khalsa's attorney. However, if state officials revoke her teaching license, which also is required under the law, Ms. Khalsa will challenge the constitutionality of the action, Mr. Roberts said.
"Rumor has it," Mr. Roberts said, "that the law was designed to prevent nuns from teaching in public schools."
Mr. Roberts added that the law dates back to 1920 when the Ku Klux Klan was "very active" in the state.
The board of education of a Kentucky school district, threatened with a lawsuit, has decided to replace posters listing the Ten Commandments with posters that quote historical figures' ideas about the Bible.
The posters that the Campbellsville Independent School District has decided to replace, entitled "Our Biblical Heritage," were donated by civic groups under a 1978 Kentucky law. In a 5-to-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1980 that such public displays are an infringement of the U.S. Constitution's separation of church and state.
Board members had resisted removing the posters, according to Superintendent David Fryrear, but decided to replace them with other posters when the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit.
The new posters list statements made by figures including Ronald Reagan, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus. The posters also quote portions of the Mayflower Compact, the Northwest Ordinance, and the pledge of allegiance.
The 18-by-24-inch posters were donated to the Campbellsville schools by the Kentucky Heritage Foundation. Mr. Fryrear called the posters "historical" rather than religious documents.
Several weeks after the phone number of the Hustler magazine hot line appeared on a gymnasium wall near a student-funded phone in a Washington State district, some 28 middle-school students and several high-school students began calling the number.
The telephone at Lincoln Middle School in Pullman, Wash., was paid for with student-association funds and had been used for years to let students call parents after athletic practices and school events, according to Michael D. Riggs, the school's vice principal.
The hot-line number appeared on the wall in October. By late November, 87 calls had been made, costing the student association $52, according to Mr. Riggs.
School officials caught on to the unauthorized use of the telephone after students tipped them off. School authorities then checked the monthly phone bill. Mr. Riggs dialed the hot line number--from his home phone--to "verify" exactly who the students were calling.
"I heard a tape of a woman describing various sexual acts and breathing heavily. I was really disappointed," said Mr. Riggs, who described the woman's performance as "lousy."
The school district has written letters to the students' parents to collect for the phone calls.
The student council has removed the phone until the money for the calls has been paid. Money raised to operate the telephone comes from funds raised by the student association from the sale of magazines, Mr. Riggs said. He noted that Hustler is not one of them.
School officials in Farmington, N.M., intercepted 123 form letters last month that would have gone to 6th-grade students around the world asking them to write President Reagan and the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov urging the two men to eliminate "all nuclear weapons from the face of the earth."
The letters were addressed by a class of 6th graders at the Country Club Elementary School as part of a class project, inspired in part by the television movie "The Day After," said William J. Childress, director of elementary education for the Farmington school district. "The Day After" depicted the probable after-effects of nuclear war.
About 75 of the letters were mailed using school funds before school officials called a halt to the project, Mr. Childress said. The remaining 123 letters were confiscated and opened by school officials. None of the letters was signed by a student, Mr. Childress added.
At issue was the "approach of the teacher," said Mr. Childress. School officials objected to the teacher's use of his pupils as an "instrument" to mail a letter espousing his particular viewpoint. School officials did not disapprove of a discussion of nuclear issues in the classroom, and there would have been "no problem" if the students had written their own letters, he added.
The teacher received a "mild" reprimand, Mr. Childress said.
The Emporia, Kan., school board has agreed to enroll a handicapped 4-year-old student who contracted herpes as an infant, after more than a year of debate and prodding from the Kansas Department of Education.
The girl's parents had asked more than a year ago that their daughter be admitted to a preschool program for handicapped children administered by the district. But the district turned down their request after some staff members threatened to resign and the parents of other children said they would withdraw from the school.
Instead, the district agreed to provide a home tutor for the girl, who has cerebral palsy in addition to herpes--an infectious virus with no known cure.
Carroll Schubert, the district's administrative assistant, said the girl was admitted when her parents reapplied and they have offered to keep her at home when the herpes lesions are active and the risk of passing on the infection is greatest.
The state department of education also had told district officials that they must admit the girl or discontinue the special-education program for preschoolers, according to Mr. Schubert.
Parents of other children in the program are still concerned about contagion, but the program's staff is now more receptive to the district's decision to admit the girl, Mr. Schubert said. The change in attitude may have been the result of inservice training received by the staff from the local health office, he said.
Students who witnessed one student shooting another at a high school in Indiana have started a club to counteract the effects of the violent action.
According to Donald R. Golliher, principal of Crawfordsville High School, the students decided to start the club after they heard that one elementary-school student's response to the shooting was: "Oh neat, I wish I'd been there."
A group of students who witnessed the shooting early last month are planning a presentation for pupils in lower grades to let them know that violence is not "neat," Mr. Golliher said.
The student group, which calls itself save (Students Against Violence in Education), is also conducting a fund-raising drive to help the student who was injured and is encouraging other students in the school to donate blood as a way of honoring the doctors and nurses who cared for the student.
The two boys involved in the shooting incident had apparently argued about a girl prior to the shooting, Mr. Golliher said.
The Boston school district and union have ended the possibility of a strike loomed in Minneapolis after months of uncertainty. The new three-year contract, reached last month, will cost the city $17 million the first year, including $7 million for a 5-percent pay raise, and $10 million and $11 million for the second and third years respectively, a district spokesman said. The city council is expected to approve the pact later this month.
The school committee, in a turnaround, agreed to a layoff system based on seniority, the spokesman said. In return, the union agreed to allow principals to choose from among the three most senior teachers instead of being limited to the most senior. The union conceded guaranteed raises in next two years.
In St. Paul, Minn., teachers last month approved a new contract that will boost salaries 6.2 percent the first year and 4.5 percent the second year, a union spokesman said. The teachers will also receive more class-preparation time.
Duluth teachers, who went on strike for 18 days last month for the first time in their history, have ratified a contract providing a 5.5-percent salary increase the first year, and a 4.4-percent increase the second year of their two-year contract.
In Minneapolis, however, the union has called for a strike on Jan. 17 if no agreement is reached with the school board before then. Negotiations ceased in November over salary and working-condition issues. If it occurs, the strike will be the district's first in 13 years.
It also extends the probationary period before new teachers can win tenure from three to six years. Teams of full-time evaluators will work with teachers who are doing poorly, said Jay Robinson, the district's superintendent, but no written tests will be given to tenured teachers. "I'm not going to put someone out because he can't pass a test," Mr. Robinson said. Initial costs will be about $400,000, he estimated. As more teachers receive higher salaries, the cost could rise to $6 million.
Amy Hovenden, a 14-year-old home-educated student from Orem, Utah, will be the youngest pupil ever to attend Brigham Young University when she starts classes this month.
Ms. Hovenden, who studied at home with six of her nine siblings, finished in the top 4 percent of students taking the American College Testing program examination.
"Amy began reading at age 3. By age 5, when most other kids were trying to figure out where the john is, she was reading at the 9th-grade level," according to Alan Hovenden, the girl's father.
"We had to take her out of public school and then private school, because the schools didn't know what to do with her," he said.
Samantha, a 7th-grade student in Manchester, attracted international attention last spring when she received a three-page letter from Mr. Andropov. She had written to him earlier about U.S.-Soviet relations and her fears of of a nuclear confrontation of the two superpowers.
Arthur Smith, Samantha's father, said his daughter received the invitation to Japan from an organization that is promoting an international trade exposition. During her 10-day visit, Samantha met Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.
A new director has been selected to lead the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the group that sets accrediting guidelines for schools of education.
Richard C. Kunkel, dean of the college of education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will be-come ncate's executive director in July, replacing Acting Director George Denemark.
Mr. Kunkel is a member of the Association of American Colleges of Teacher Education's accreditation task force and also chairs a task force of the Association of Colleges and Schools of Education in State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
A native of St. Louis, he did graduate work in administration, curriculum, and counseling at St. Louis University and has served as chairman of the department of education there and assistant to the president.
Fred A. Hargadon, dean of admissions at Stanford University and a former chairman of the College Board, is leaving Stanford to become senior vice president for administration with the College Board, effective Sept. 1.
Both severely handicapped students and nonhandicapped students benefit from their interaction in the schools and in the community, according to a new study by the Educational Testing Service.
The three-year study of severely handicapped students was conducted in 14 diverse school districts. The researchers identified and compared the benefits of different social programs on 245 handicapped students and their classmates.
Although similar studies have been conducted, the ets study is unusual because its results are based on observations of students from the ages of 3 to 22, according to Richard Brinker, a research scientist with the testing service and the project director for the study.
Specifically, the study found that classmates who serve as tutors and special-education teachers who encourage classroom interaction create the best social and learning atmosphere for severely-handicapped students. The study also concluded that integrated settings allow handicapped students to model their behavior on that of nonhandicapped classmates and to develop stronger social skills in consequence.
Integrated settings permit far more positive exchanges between handicapped and nonhandicapped students than segregated settings do, according to the study.
The authors of the study underscore the importance of teachers in fostering social exchanges between handicapped and nonhandicapped students.
And they recommend that special-education teachers receive training that better prepares them for such a role.
By the time they start high school, when drug-prevention classes often begin, many students have already tried drugs or decided not to, a University of Florida study suggests.
In a survey involving the 9th- and 12th-grade pupils at six Florida public schools, Professor of Anthropology Brian du Toit found that 10 percent had used cocaine, 47 percent had smoked marijuana, and 83 percent had tried alcohol.
White males began experiment-ing with alcohol at the youngest age, the study showed. Fifty-three percent drank in middle school, compared with 45 percent of white females. Thirty percent of the white males and 20 percent of the white females had smoked marijuana before entering high school.
The rates were lower among the black students surveyed, the researcher found. Thirty-eight percent of the black males and 31 percent of the black females surveyed first drank in middle school. Seventeen percent of black males and 12 percent of black females had tried marijuana by the time they started high school.
Wendell Smith was one of about 60 volunteers who last month began cleaning up the Samuel Gompers Elementary School in Philadelphia. The volunteers included parents, students, and local citizens.
The 1950's-style diner that served as the home-away-from-home for four young men in the 1981 film "Diner" will soon serve as the work site for vocational-education students in the city of Baltimore.
The 67-seat diner was donated to the city by a local radio station and will be used to train seniors enrolled in the Baltimore school system's food-service program.
"We think it's going to be the only diner run by kids in the United States," said Fontaine Sullivan, volunteer coordinator for Mayor William D. Schaefer. She said the mayor had "wished for a diner" and when the management at the radio station learned of his wish, they contacted the New Jersey firm that had leased the one used in the movie, which was filmed in Baltimore.
The city has established a diner task force to prepare for the grand opening. "This is a project where so many people have caught the vision," Ms. Sullivan said of the volunteers, whose contributions have saved the city thousands of dollars, she noted.
"Giving a city a diner," Ms. Sullivan said, "is not like giving it a picture to hang on the wall."
Local businesses have donated equipment and labor and, according to Ms. Sullivan, the Marriott Corporation has been working with school officials to develop a food-service training program that will enable students who work at the diner to become eligible for employment with the company after graduation.
Marva Randolph, education specialist for the school system's office of home economics, said the Kids Diner will be located near City Hall so that it can take advantage of the downtown pedestrian activity.
"This is strictly an educational opportunity," she said, adding that thework-study program will provide the students with management and service training.


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Boris Johnson urged to review deal on Northern Ireland trade
Boris Johnson is coming under growing pressure from Conservative MPs and leading politicians in Northern Ireland to overhaul the region's post-Brexit trade arrangements.
Eurosceptic Tory MPs and the pro-UK Democratic Unionist party seized on the European Commission's move on Friday to override the Brexit treaty's provisions on Northern Ireland to demand that the prime minister secure changes to the trade regime.
Business leaders have expressed concern the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit treaty, which is intended to prevent a hard border in the island of Ireland, is impeding the movement of goods from Great Britain to the region and have called for the UK and EU to jointly address the issue.
The European Commission on Friday sought to override the protocol, and potentially reintroduce border checks between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, because it wanted to stop coronavirus vaccines made in the EU from reaching the UK.
Brussels abandoned its move to invoke article 16 of the protocol, allowing the EU to act unilaterally, after objections from London, Belfast and Dublin.
Some of Northern Ireland's politicians and business leaders are concerned at how the protocol, by requiring checks on goods moving from Great Britain to the region, is disrupting trade and increasing costs.
The checks arise because Northern Ireland, unlike Great Britain, is covered by EU customs rules and effectively stays in the bloc's single market for goods after Brexit.
Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland's first minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist party, said on Saturday that Mr Johnson should use article 16 of the protocol to take action to improve trade flow between Great Britain and the region.
She told the BBC: "The protocol is unworkable . . . we need to see it replaced because otherwise there is going to be real difficulties here in Northern Ireland."
Mark Francois, chair of the European Research Group of pro-Brexit Tory MPs, said in an article for the Sunday Telegraph that the government should conduct a "complete review" of the protocol so as to "iron out" operational issues, and if necessary "consider replacing it entirely".
Theresa Villiers, former Northern Ireland secretary, said the protocol must be "workable" and that required "some pragmatism" from the EU.
"It is in all of our interests to make the protocol work, but if there is ever an opportunity to push for a bit more common sense on the protocol, absolutely now is the time," she added.
Downing Street declined to comment, but Whitehall insiders said the government was committed to the protocol and stressed the UK was keen to engage in constructive discussions with the EU about its implementation. The European Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Micheál Martin, Ireland's taoiseach, defended the protocol, saying it had been in place for only four weeks and as a result there were "bound to be teething problems".
The EU is sticking to its plan to impose controls on coronavirus vaccines made in the bloc, although the commission has abandoned its move to invoke article 16 of the protocol.
Liz Truss, international trade secretary, said on Sunday Mr Johnson had been assured by commission president Ursula von der Leyen that there would be no disruption to the UK's contract with BioNTech/Pfizer for its Covid-19 vaccine, which is being made in Belgium.
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Newsflash: The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be in Singapore from this Thursday, 23rd June 2011. There will be three versions of the PlayBook, which will be sold at the recommended retail price (RRP) of $668 (16GB), $798 (32GB) and $928 (64GB) respectively. Price includes GST.
You can read my review of the BlackBerry PlayBook here.
Singapore – 20 June 2011 – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet will be available in Singapore on 23rd June 2011 from SingTel, M1, and Starhub, as well as a number of nation-wide retail stores. The BlackBerry PlayBook will come in three Wi-Fi® models, featuring 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB of memory storage.
Starting today, customers can place orders for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The full list of retailers offering customers the ability to preorder is available online at http://sg.blackberry.com/playbook/wheretobuy.
"The BlackBerry PlayBook is an incredibly powerful and feature-rich tablet that is ideal for both business and personal use," said Gregory Wade, Regional Managing Director at Research In Motion. "With a growing number of stores across Singapore featuring the BlackBerry PlayBook, we welcome customers to try it out for themselves," added Wade.
The BlackBerry PlayBook features an ultra-portable design and delivers industry leading performance, uncompromised web browsing with support for Adobe® Flash® Player, true multitasking, HD multimedia, advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support and a robust development environment.


Take your pick, there are many of them out there using terms similar to the above, we were simply inferring that the No Indicators Trading Strategy does not use or need to use such terms.
Thank you for the prompt reply. I will definitely give NITS a try.
Thank you for this review – its been very helpful. I purchased this system a couple of months ago. I am totally new to this and have no previous experience of any kind. I traded with a demo account for a few weeks and followed instructions and listened to the morning review of previous nights trading but my results and Jasons just didnt match. I then went live and lost £100 in about 48hrs – time for a re- think! I then bought Bedtime Trader, found this forum and sent it back! The good thing about Adbreak Trader is I now know some basics. Can anyone recommend a system that is profitable, easy and is suitable for someone starting out with a very small bank. I dont expect riches but would like to be able to earn an extra £500-£1000 per month eventually. Is that wildly unrealistic? I have an account with IG and have a couple of weeks left on 50p per pip. I would prefer to use my Macbook but have an old pc I could use if necessary. I also have an account with Agoras recommended broker but havent tried it.
I would advisedly point out that there is no 'easy' trading system anywhere on Earth. Having studied ways of trading the money markets for the past seven years I can truly say that the deeper you go into it the more you need to learn. Never follow a system so slavishly that you ignore the economic trends and influences in which it has to function. For example, over the past couple of months or so, the world financial markets have been extremely volatile, so don't try and trade at such times! Even Jason A would not do that. Every system will fail when the market movers are playing games with each other. No-one but no-one stands a chance at such times – stay out…out!! Finance houses are moving trillions upon trillions of dollars remember. I would also recommend learning about candle charting in general if you are a newbie. The website Babypips is excellent for this purpose; it is well structured and free of charge. There you will learn what the different visual signals actually mean, after which I believe using someone's pre-designed system will begin to make sense (and later, some money). I'm afraid it is a long, hard slog, there are no short cuts; true, of course, whenever a new body of knowledge has to be acquired in Life!
As someone who knows that virtually every "sold" system is a pile of poo, I shouldn't really be tempted to order these things, but I do! Curiosity will eventually kill this cat. If it's any consolation, I always send them back. On the odd occasion, I do learn something that helps my trading.
I must say that Ad Break Trader is probably the worst such "system" I have sampled. Apart from the fact that it doesn't work (minor issue, I know), I really couldn't cope with the attitude of the bloke behind it. Sitting through videos with him yawning while he tried to retro-fit his trades was just too much for me and I had to ask for a refund after a couple of weeks. The support was dreadful too. I asked for details of historic and current results to be posted and was told these were not available. Nuff said!


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Q: calling 'parent' function from within embedded page I have an HTML page where using jquery I swap out the 'body' content with another page

    Employee Counts
     Employee Pool
    Admin

$("#bodyContent").load('EmployeeCounts.html');

There is a function in the 'parent' page that I want to reference from the 'embedded' page.  All the code I find online talks about parent/child but the child is a second window that opens separately, not embedded and that code does not seem to be working in my case.

A: yeah, someone helped me see that it was all about scope.  I had the function in the documentready.  I moved it out of there and the "child" code was able to call the function.

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Q: function-style-cast in Template Meta programming Code taken from the book Template Metaprogramming with C++, it doesn't compile i tried visual studio 22 i get the error:
Error   C2440

\<function-style-cast\>'

: cannot convert from 'initializer list' to 'n713::async_bool'chapter_07
see code:

class async_bool{
    std::function<bool()> check;
    public:explicit async_bool() = delete;
    async_bool(std::function<bool()> checkIt): check(checkIt){ }

      async_bool(bool val)
         : check([val]() {return val; })
      { }

      static async_bool yes() {
          return async_bool(
              []() { return true; } );
      }
      static async_bool no() {
          return async_bool(
              []() { return false; } );
      }

      bool operator&&(bool fore) const { return fore && check(); }
      bool operator!() const { return !check(); }
      operator bool() const { return check(); }
};

int main(){
    async_bool b1 = async_bool(false);  //async_bool b1{ false };
    async_bool b2 = async_bool(true);// async_bool b2{ true };
    async_bool b3{  {std::cout << "Y/N? "; char c; std::cin >> c; return c == 'Y' || c == 'y'; }
    if (b1) { std::cout << "b1 is true\n"; }
    if (b2) { std::cout << "b2 is true\n"; }
    if (b3) { std::cout << "b3 is true\n"; }
    return 0;
};

tried c++20 with visual studio
tried g++ in ubuntu-> gave different errors but still didnt compile, managed to fix it i think by changing the code to the following:

class async_bool

    {
        using check = std::function<bool()>;
        check dec_;

    public:
        async_bool() = delete;
        async_bool(check dec) : dec_{ std::move(dec) } {}

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The Battle for Mt Emerald FNQ: What's the Price for the Sound of Your Silence?
June 25, 2014 by stopthesethings 9 Comments
John Madigan: never far from the heat of the battle.
Proving the adage that you can never keep a good man down, Senator John Madigan has bobbed up in Far North Queensland and walked straight into a hornet's nest – this time over gag clauses in land contracts for properties being sold next door to a wind farm by the developer of that wind farm. Here's The Cairns Post on the brewing rumble for Mt Emerald.
Senator queries wind farm 'gag' clause while in Cairns
The Cairns Post
Daniel Bateman
A VICTORIAN Senator has questioned why the property developer behind a Tableland wind farm has any need to ban residents from speaking out about the project.
Developer Port Bajool Pty Ltd has placed a clause in its contracts of sale for properties at Oaky Creek Farms, stating there be no objection to the proposed $380 million Mt Emerald Wind Farm.
The developer claims the clause merely ensured buyers were fully aware of the proposed wind farm prior to purchasing property.
The State Government has called in the application for the development from the Mareeba Shire Council and is expected to decide if it will proceed by the end of the year.
Ballarat-based Democratic Labour Party Senator John Madigan, in Cairns this week for the AUSVEG convention, said he sympathised with residents living near the proposed wind farm.
Mr Madigan described the developer's claims of transparency as "a load of crap".
"These gag clauses: if this was as pure as driven snow, why do you need gag clauses?" he said.
Cook MP David Kempton denied residents had been forced to sign gag orders.
"There's no gag order. I reckon (opponents) are playing with that to try and make it look like (the developer) is something he isn't," he said.
So, what's all the fuss about? Why don't we start by having a look at the clause in question?
Set out below is an extract from the "Contracts for Sale" for properties at Oaky Creek Farms, Mutchilba (Queensland, Australia). These properties are being sold by Port Bajool Pty Ltd. Port Bajool Pty Ltd is the owner of the property (situated on Mt Emerald) – on which RATCH (aka RACL, a subsidiary of Thailand's biggest power producer) is planning to construct a 63 turbine wind farm (aka the High Road Wind Farm) – and Port Bajool Pty Ltd is also a partner with RATCH in the $2.00 company, Mt Emerald Wind Farm Pty Ltd. The properties at Oaky Creek Farms are all within a 5km radius of proposed turbines, as identified on RATCH's "Surrounding Residences" map.
Here's the offending clause:
No Objection to Wind Farm
The Vendor discloses that certain feasibility studies (including geotechnical surveys and construction and operation of monitoring equipment) and a development application or procedure have been or may be made in respect to the use or development of Lot 7 SP235244 for construction of wind electricity power generation (by means of a connected group of wind turbine generators, together with associated electrical infrastructure and connection equipment). The Purchaser must not object to any application or procedure made or initiated by or on behalf of the Vendor or a third party in respect of any use or development of Lot 7 SP235244. The Purchaser acknowledges that the Purchaser will not be materially prejudiced by the development or use of Lot 7 SP 235244 as a "wind farm" for the generation of electrical power.
The clause is pretty straightforward – a purchaser of land from the joint-developer of the wind farm signs away any right to object to any application or procedure made in respect of any use or development on the site of the proposed wind farm: Lot 7 SP235244.
The purchaser also effectively signs away their private law rights (such as nuisance or negligence caused by wind turbine noise, say) by acknowledging that they "will not be materially prejudiced by the development or use" of the site "as a "wind farm" for the generation of electrical power."
The purchaser's agreement not to object to any application or procedure made by the developer in respect of any use of the site – combined with the acknowledgement that the purchaser "will not be materially prejudiced by the development or use" of the site as a wind farm – can be fairly described as a "gag clause". While there are much tougher versions around, this one is probably tough enough for the developer's purposes (see our post here).
In practical effect, the purchaser would not be entitled to raise any objection to the wind farm at all. To object would be a breach of the Contract for Sale; and an objection would include any negative or disparaging statement made about the use or operation of the site as a wind farm. This would not be limited to statements made during the planning process, but would extend to cover any application or procedure made by the developer during the life of the wind farm.
Moreover, should the purchaser take action (including legal action) in relation to any complaint concerning negative impacts caused by the operation of the wind farm, the purchaser will breach that part of the clause that acknowledges that they "will not be materially prejudiced by the development or use" of the site as a wind farm. Were the purchaser to make their complaint to the press, for example, the developer may also assert that this breaches that same acknowledgement; and would, therefore, constitute a breach of contract.
Whichever way you slice it, the clause is Draconian. And, if wind farms make such wonderful neighbours, obviously unnecessary, surely? A point well made by John "Marshall" Madigan in the piece above.
But don't just take our word for it, the Tablelands Regional Council received legal advice (click here for the advice) in relation to the Ratch's High Road Wind Farm development. In apparent response to the clause set out above (and clauses like it) the advice was as follows (see page 18):
We do recommend that Council make HRWF (High Road Wind Farm) aware that in conducting any negotiations they couldn't stifle comments from residents who are likely to be affected. The Court [in Bunnings Building Supplies Pty Ltd v Redland Shire Council and Ors [2000] QPELR 193, paras [30] and [32]] has warned:
"The Council should have the opportunity to assess the application in the light of the informed attitude of interested parties, especially local residents and most especially those living closest to the site who would mostly be affected. That informed attitude may well be perverted by a developer who uses the cheque book … In this case the cheque book approach to potential submitters has not affected the merits of the various arguments on the disputed issues. I take the opportunity, however, to deplore it in the strongest terms. Should this approach manifest itself in other application, the Court will have to examine the ramifications in detail. Could it have the effect of vitiating the public notification stage, requiring re-notification? Might it amount to an abuse of process?"
We note that the [noise] Standard recommends that a regulatory authority set criteria that is flexible to account for existing agreements between landowners. We do not agree with this approach.
Now, some might quibble and say – referring to the concept of freedom of contract – that where parties willingly enter agreements they should be bound to honour them, no matter what their terms.
Call us sticklers for fairness – but that principle no longer holds where the beneficiary of a punitive clause has deliberately engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. And there is no party more likely to mislead or deceive than the prospective wind farm developer; and the "softer" the target, the easier the ruse.
Lies and deception work a treat if your audience is a 60 something farmer's wife living on an isolated property and of the class that accepts people at face value. The targets come from places where people (who want to function and remain in these communities) just don't lie. So they can't pick it when the wind developer's goons drop in for that one-on-one chat over a cuppa and start lying before the scones are popped on the table.
These are the private consultations where the unwitting victim is told that: "no, wind turbines aren't noisy – they make the same noise as a fridge at 500m." They're told that: "our proposed wind farm will meet the toughest noise standards in the world"; that: "the only people that complain are those that aren't getting paid"; that: "modern wind turbines don't produce infrasound"; that: "the NHMRC said that the evidence proves that there are no adverse health effects from wind turbines". And so on and so on …. The same pitches have, no doubt, been made to prospective purchasers of properties at Oaky Creek Farms.
As a general rule, only those that have been forced to live with incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infra-sound for an extended period have the faintest idea as to what it's like to live in a sonic torture trap (see our posts here and here).
A wind farm developer will never admit that turbine noise is a problem – it's what they pay their pet acoustic consultants big-money to deflect or bury – victims can expect to hear pitches like the one that says listening to wind turbine noise is just like listening to waves lapping on a moonlit beach.
A wind farm developer who is also selling lifestyle properties right next door has a double incentive to gild the lily.
No wonder this one's keen to buy the buyer's silence.
Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, Queensland Tagged With: Atherton Tablelands, gag clauses, John Madigan, Mt Emerald wind farm, Port Bajool Pty Ltd, RATCH, Tablelands Regional Council, Tolga QLQ
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Against the wind says:
Not just the Oaky Valley subdivision, but also the properties that Port Bajool have recently sold along Kippen Drive. They have gag clauses too. Now they plan to put all the construction vehicles, thousands of them, right through the middle of the Kippen Drive properties that they sold. Hell for these rural folk who believed they were buying a place of peace and quiet.
Harry Makris says:
Palmer will not vote to abolish Clean Energy Council.
http://media.watoday.com.au/news/national-news/al-gore-praises-palmers-significant-climate-policy-5543575.html
Lies, lies, and more lies are coming hard and fast from the Mt Emerald fan goons. When are these wind weasel and greentard goons going to stop lying?
Stand against wind says:
Many stupid people -like me- bought land around the Mount Emerald plateau from the wind farm developers Port Bajool because we naively believed John Morris and Jim Noli when they said "you won't see them" and "you won't hear them-sound travels upwards". Where are our governments to protect us from these reptiles? They are the 21st century's snake oil salesmen.
Jackie Rovenksy says:
False assurances given to people who signed contracts surely can be cancelled – It is known these companies use 'hard sell' techniques so surely there is something people can do to have these clauses in the contracts cancelled.
After all the companies know very well the turbines will be seen and that noise will be emitted and that it does travel. Lies told to prospective buyers are not acceptable in any contractual arrangement – especially when the seller deliberately goes out of their way to tell them.
Ivan Chan says:
It is plain to see how politicians lie without any sense of remorse like the Cook MP David Kempton in saying what he did about gag clause. Why do we allow lying MPs to keep their jobs? Why are lies tolerated when Government officials do so? This is the breakdown of trust in forthright responsible Government which if allowed to proliferate and go unpunished, would eat away the very foundations of society.
This is why the lies of the wind industry are never punished — our political representatives lie shamelessly and permit and sanction the lies upon which the scumbags of the wind industry get a free pass to commit crimes to rural communities.
Fellow Australians, it is time we demand truth and honesty from our Government representatives at all levels. And if that is not forthcoming, they have no legitimacy to rule over us. No business to wield power and be where they are.
This clause in a contract is horrific – it not only gives them the right to erect a Wind Energy Project free of neighbouring dissent, but if they decide not to build that they could even try their hand at 'fracking' or some other damaging project. It gives the developer the right to do what ever they like no matter how it could affect surrounding properties. That includes them being able to damage water courses, spray the land with things that could drift on to the neighbouring properties – you name it they could do what ever they like as if the adjoining properties belong to them and the owners are simply 'renters'.
It could easily be stopped by the State Governments banning such clauses in property transactions, or by every contract to have to be explained to the purchaser by completely independent lawyers/conveyance's or other suitable people who declare under oath they have given advice/interpretation of the contract completely independent of any associations with the seller of the property.
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[…] With 91.7% of locals bitterly opposed to the project, common sense would suggest a polite withdrawal by the developer. Instead, however, RATCH has dipped into the standard book of wind industry lies and half-truths (we covered a few of them in this post). Not content with lying to the community, RATCH has sought to shut down criticism by the use of draconian gag clauses contained in land sale contracts between the developer (Port Bajool Pty Ltd) and locals (see our post here). […]


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ディジタル・シルクロード > 東洋文庫アーカイブ > VIII-5-B2-9 > V-1 > カラー画像
Serindia : vol.1
セリンディア : vol.1
Sec. iiJ ANCIENT REMAINS AROUND CHARCHAN 30!
embankment of a canal running northward. The fact that its bottom level was several feet higher than that of the deflated ground near by was a sufficient proof of its antiquity in spite of the name Yaugi-iistaug, ' the new canal ', by which it is known now, and of the tamarisk scrub growing along it. I soon learned from my local informants that the name and the signs of returning vegetation were due to the attempt which Mûsa Beg, an enterprising local headman, had made here, some twenty years before, to utilize an ancient irrigation channel for founding a new colony below the present oasis. The water had flowed freely for some years, during which young tamarisk scrub found time to effect a footing. But soon the endeavour to assure cultivation had failed from want of adequate labour, even though the ground which irrigation from this restored canal commanded was delared to be very fertile. It was an apt illustration of the main difficulty which seems ever to have dogged the fortunes of the most isolated of Turkestan oases.'
Going to the north-east for about a mile from the point where the canal line was crossed, I was shown a ruined wall of stamped clay about fifty feet long and still rising about eleven feet above the eroded ground. This was strewn with plentiful pottery débris of ancient appearance for a short distance all round. The ruin is known only as Tam,' the wall', and its original character could not be determined. Proceeding thence across the bare Sai towards the south-western extremity of the oasis, I was shown a low and much-burrowed mound about forty feet in diameter, known as Kalaghak-doug, which from the human bones scattered around seemed to have served as a burial-place. By its layers of brushwood inserted between gravel it recalled the mounds of Tiiga-dong examined in 190! near Gulakhma.2
Within half a mile to the east of this, and quite close to the edge of cultivation, there was reached the northernmost part of the extensive ' Tati ' generally known to the people of Charchan as the ` Kane-shahr'. Some nameless saint's Ziarat, called Yalghuz-lugh Nazar (` the shrine of the lonely yak-tail '), marks its present limit northward. About a quarter of a mile south of this I could trace scanty remains of foundations of walls built of clay and bricks, all dug into by ` treasure-seekers '. The bricks measured about twenty by ten inches, with a thickness of about three and a half inches. Otherwise the site wore the look of a regular ` Tati ', the potsherds mostly of coarse material resting on eroded riverine loess. The extent to which wind erosion has here lowered the ground-level could be gauged by far-stretched loess terraces extending on the east of the ` Tati' along a flood channel which carried water to a newly irrigated part of the oasis. These terraces, which moisture had evidently helped to protect, also bore pottery débris on their top.
Recently levelled fields fringed this ` Tati ' on the north and north-east, and confirmed the
statements of my local informants that much of the ' Kbne-shahr' area had been brought under cultivation again by the gradual southward extension of the oasis. M. Grenard, who visited
Charchan in 1893 and first noticed its ' Kône-shahr', evidently found the structural remains more extensive, though not differing in character from those I could still trace.2 He was inclined to attribute them to the Charchan of Marco Polo's time, and to look for the ruins of the older Chii-mo further north about Tatran. But he based this belief on a supposed change in the Charchan River's
Ruined wall or Tant.
'i'ati' of Kône-shahr, on edge of Charchan oasis.
Cultivation extended over ' Tati'.
' The line of this old canal was crossed by me again at two points to the south-west of the present oasis. Owing to an error of the Surveyor, who passed here after dusk at the end of a long march from the foot of the mountains, Map No. 47 shows the head of the Yangi-iistang as taking off from the Ayak-tar stream instead of the Charchan River. In Dr. Hassenstein's map, based on Dr. Hedin's survey, the uppermost line of the canal is correctly delineated ; but by a reverse error it is treated there as a side branch of the
Charchan River and conjecturally shown as uniting itself lower down with the bed of the Ayak-tar, while in reality its course northward remains quite distinct. The point where the route southward crosses the canal is correctly marked in both maps.
2 Cf. Ancient Khotan, i. pp. 465 sq.
3 Cf. Grenard, Mission D. de Rht'ns, i. pp. 183 sq.; iii. P. 146.
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In Nigeria, where prosperity preaching is popular with many Christian leaders, Hinn's latest position would come as a terrible blow and in fact a bruising swipe at their 'money for blessing' scheme.
Israeli televangelist, Benny Hinn, has said that he is quitting prosperity preaching because the Holy Spirit was fed up with it.
The 66-year-old, who made the announcement during a Facebook live programme earlier in the week, pointed that such preaching was a gimmick adopted by Christian religious leaders to squeeze money out from members of their congregation.
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Hinn said, "I'm sorry to say that prosperity has gone a little crazy and I'm correcting my own theology and you need to all know it.
"Because when I read the Bible now, I don't see the Bible with the same eyes I saw it 20 years ago."
"I think it's an offense to the Lord, it's an offense to say give $1,000. I think it's an offense to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the Gospel. I'm done with it.
"I will never again ask you to give $1,000 or whatever amount, because I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it."
"I think it hurts the Gospel. When they invite me to telethons, I think they will not like me anymore.
"If I hear one more time, break the back of debt with $1,000, I'm gonna rebuke them. I think that's buying the Gospel. That's buying the blessing. That's grieving the Holy Spirit."
"If you are not giving because you love Jesus, don't bother giving. I think giving has become such a gimmick; it's making me sick to my stomach."
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The College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University seeks a Research Coordinator for the ECHO research project. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to ensuring access to excellent and innovation. It is committed to diversity and inclusion and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason's academic and culturally inclusive environment.
About the Department: The College of Health & Human Services resides in Peterson Family Health Science Hall, a new state-of-the-art building that is home to the newly opened Population Health Center whose mission is to provide inter-professional clinical and behavioral health, while supporting population-based research and offering professional development and training opportunities.
The NIH has launched a seven-year initiative called the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to advance knowledge and understanding of the effects of environmental exposures on child health and development. Its stated mission is to enhance the health of children for generations to come.
Responsibilities The Research Coordinator will be primarily responsible for executing ECHO prenatal /early childhood protocol requirements. The incumbent will assist with recruiting ECHO prenatal participants into the current proposal; inform patients or caregivers about study aspects and outcomes to be expected, administer surveys and collect survey returns; monitor research participants to ensure adherence to study rules, scheduling clinic, home and laboratory visits; collecting biospecimens to the GMU biorepository; code, evaluate, and enter data into databases, and ensure that the necessary supplies and equipment for the study are in stock.
Specific duties * Schedule and conduct research participant visits; * Consent patients into the research study; * Perform participant follow-up on site and remotely by phone or home visits in order to complete study requirements; * Complete data entry and perform data quality checks, audits and corrections; * Additional duties may be assigned to meet project deliverables.
Required Qualifications: * Master's degree in a relevant field or Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and experience in child/family clinical research may substitute for the advanced degree; * Possess commendable organizational skills; * Attention to detail; * Project management skills and knowledge of project management best practices; * Excellent communication skills; verbal and written; * In depth information about the project area; * Experience in data collection and data management; * Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; * Ability to work within a team; * A multi-tasker with strong ability to work under pressure; * Proficient in using computers with related knowledge of software programs and Internet.
For full consideration, applicants must apply at https://jobs.gmu.edu/; complete and submit the online application; and upload a cover letter describing the applicant's qualifications and interest in the position, a CV, and a list of three professional references with contact information.
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George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in both academics and research. Mason holds a top U.S. News and World Report "Up and Coming" spot for national universities and is recognized for its global appeal and excellence in higher education.
Mason is currently the largest and most diverse university in Virginia with students and faculty from all 50 states and over 135 countries studying in over 200 degree programs at campuses in Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William, as well as at learning locations across the commonwealth. Rooted in Mason's diversity is a campus culture that is both rewarding and exciting, work that is meaningful, and opportunities to both collaborate and create.
If you are interested in joining the Mason family take a look at our current opportunities and catch some Mason spirit at jobs.gmu.edu/!
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Gains made in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV could be reversed, with new HIV infections among children up by as much as 104%.
A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500,000 extra deaths from AIDS-related illnesses, including from tuberculosis, in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020–2021.
In 2018, an estimated 470,000 people died of AIDS-related deaths in the region.
There are many different reasons that could cause services to be interrupted—this modelling exercise makes it clear that communities and partners need to take action now as the impact of a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could effectively set the clock on AIDS-related deaths back to 2008, when more than 950,000 AIDS-related deaths were observed in the region.
And people would continue to die from the disruption in large numbers for at least another five years, with an annual average excess in deaths of 40% over the next half a decade.
In addition, HIV service disruptions could also have some impact on HIV incidence in the next year.
"The terrible prospect of half a million more people in Africa dying of AIDS-related illnesses is like stepping back into history," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
[Let's end the insanity, #jailBillGates and get our world back from these psychopaths!]
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Kim "Jinx" Arashikage was released in the summer of 2012 as a convention exclusive at San Diego Comic-Con. Two versions of Jinx were produced: a primary deco version matching the classic red color style of the original 1987 figure and a variant version wearing a white shinobi shozoko. The variant features the unmasked portrait of actress Elodie Yung, who portrays the character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Both figures were available at the Hasbro Toy Shop booth (limited to three for the primary version and one for the variant, per attendee badge) at Comic-Con and later online at HasbroToyShop.com, in limited quantities.
Jinx's name embodies collector sentiment when it comes to the frustration felt in acquiring convention exclusive items from Hasbro. Many collectors feel jinxed because if you can't attend a convention or aren't incessantly checking Hasbro Top Shop after the con ends (which only has limited quantities that usually sell out within minutes), you're stuck paying aftermarket prices that are double or triple the retail cost.
Did You Know? This is the first version of Jinx to provide her civilian name in the filecard. Jinx's original 1987 filecard listed "Top Secret" in the name field and several years later in the Valor vs Venom line, while Agent Jinx was revealed to be the cousin of Storm Shadow, her name remained classified and shrouded in secrecy.
Kim "Jinx" Arashikage studied and competed in three forms of martial arts from the time she was seven until she graduated from Bryn Mawr. Upon arriving in Japan for a vacation, she discovered that her family had been ninjas for generations, and she was officially initiated into the clan. Jinx was recruited for the G.I. Joe team by Snake Eyes.
"Don't underestimate her. She has been to the Secret Mountain and studied the Seven Silent Forms with the Blind Master. She has the Eyes That Pierce, the Iron Hand, and the Heart That Waits. She can see through your deception, batter aside your defenses and dazzle you with the strength of her will."


B U B B L E G A R M: 2 Things!
I purchased 2 makeup related items today. I hate it when everything runs out at the same time!
I was out of under eye concealer. My all time HG is the BeneFit Boi-ing.I use shade '02'. Read my review HERE.
I also like the creamy concealer Bobbi Brown do and that's about it.
My Chanel Exceptionnel mascara has become crusty and needs to be binned. I wasn't willing to splurge on a high end mascara so I purchased a cult favourite 'L'oreal Voluminous' in carbon black. Sounds good, never tried it before, so this will be interesting.
What's your favourite under eye concealer and drugstore mascara?
Dermacolor makes the best concealers! Also there's a lot of hype about the Amazing Concealers these days however aint tried those yet!
I like MAC select cover up for my undereyes. The fluid formula is perfect for blending. For mascara, I am in love with Maybelline Define-a-Lash.
L'Oreal Extra Collagen would be mine! I love it! For under eye's I am currently loving Lise Watier Colour Wheel. The medium one is the perfect match.
Thank you for posting this! I have been wondering about Bo-ing! Maybe I will go ahead and get it based on your rec. Have you tried the Erase Paste? My fave drugstore mascara is Maybelline Define-A-Lash in the hot pink tube.
Loreal Voluminous is a great drugstore mascara, its a really good buy.I have never tried Benefit Bo-ing but I've heard it's good. I just tried the BB Creamy Concealer kit and I really like that.
i dont know how carbon black is treating you but i used both the original and carbon black intense before and i liked the original one much much 1000000x better . but im asian and have the typical asian lashes so it might be completely different for you .. let us know how it is !!
my favourite under-eye concealer is the bobbi brown colour corrector (light peach, for me).
Right now the concealer I'm using is Benefit's Erase Paste however I would really love to try this one!
As for mascara-drugstore=handsdown, CG lashblast.
Concealer - I'm loving MAC studiofinish concealer (I'm NC 35) and my fave drugstore mascara is L'Oreal Panoramic Curl. It really thicknes and curls. I'm currently using Maybelline full n' soft - because it wipes off easily - so I don't feel guilty about using it frequently.
I've been wanting to try L'Oreal Voluminous for a while...I love Chanel mascaras too but they're just a bit too expensive :( My favourite bargain mascara is Max Factor Max - love it! For undereyes I love Touche Eclat...have yet to find a budget one that I like as much!
i have afew fave mascaras: YSL faux cils, loreal voluminous and max factor false lash effect mascara.
Favourite under eye concealer is Bobbi Brown's Corrector (Light Bisque) and then Warm Ivory Creamy Concealer over the top. Both are so smooth and creamy and cover really well, and are not drying at all.
Favourite drugstore mascara is Max factor's False Lash Effect in Black, although I am always looking for something better!
I love both of those things, voluminous is my fave drugstore mascara ever!


The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that after a four-year-long post mortem inquest, a provincial court in Southern Thailand has absolved all officials and military persons of responsibility for the deaths of 78 persons at Tak Bai, Narathiwat. The court admits that the victims suffocated to death, but glosses over how and why: namely that the men were beaten and then piled five-deep in trucks for five to six hours. The court considers the deaths collateral damage sustained in the line of police duty. The case raises grave concerns over impunity in Thailand.
Concluding its inquest on May 29, 2009, the Songkhla Provincial Court has ruled that the officials, police officers and soldiers who arrested and transferred Tak Bai detainees cannot be charged for the deaths, because they were acting in the line of duty. The post mortem has revealed that the victims fatally suffocated.
The court order, signed by Judges Mr. Yingyots Tan-orrachorn and Ms. Jutharat Santisevee (Red Case No. Chor. 8/2009), states that the nature of the emergency and the need for hurry was taken into consideration. It notes that there were more than 1,000 demonstrators in front of the Tak Bai police station–which was in a narrow and limited place–and close to the Thaksin Royal Palace. It also notes that the crackdown took place at dusk in low light and the weather was unfavourable, which slowed the 160 km transfer between Ingkayuthaboriharn Army Camp and Tak Bai. The judges ruled that if such action had not been taken quickly the consequences would have been 'serious', and that evidence given by the 78 victims' relatives did not carry enough weight.
However the court order gave little consideration to the testimonies of other witnesses. These include the medical doctors who carried out the postmortems, and evidence that pointed to the inhumane treatment of the arrested men during their transfer. It also ignored a confession by one officer who said that he knew of deaths early on in the journey, but neither reported them or tried to help the surviving detainees until the last truck arrived at the camp.
Over a four year period approximately 60 witnesses were called in defense of the officials involved, compared to the 10 witnesses related to the victims.
Testimony from Dr Porntip Rojanasunan, (UP-056-2007) director-general of the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) under the justice ministry, who examined 24 of the bodies and testified that the victims had died from asphyxiation and heatstroke. Evidence suggested that their hands had been kept tied behind the backs for the whole journey. The bodies showed signs of physical pressure (from having other persons stacked on top of them). The doctor also made it clear to the court that the deaths were could not be related to the fact that many of the victims had been fasting for the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Testimony from General Pisarn Wattanawongkiri, (UP-083-2007) who was the highest military officer present and one of three army officers named responsible for the deaths by the independent commission appointed by the former government (please see our general report on Tak Bai and Krue Se). Wattanawongkiri told the court that he knew that there were not enough trucks for the protesters and that they were piled on top of one other; he said he disagreed with the method but did not claim to have done anything stop it. He also reported seeing police kick protesters and order them to take off their shirts yet he left the scene before the operation was completed, leaving his deputy, Major General Chalermchai Wirunpeth in charge.
Testimony from Lieutenant General Chalermchai Wirunpeth, (UP-113-2007),who was one of the three army officers named responsible for the deaths by an independent commission appointed by the former government (see: Tak Bai and Krue Se Report). Wirunpeth commanded the Fifth Infantry Division at the time and testified that he was ordered by General Pisarn Wattanawongkiri to arrange the dispersal. However he actually stayed in the Tak Bai police station meeting room during most of the incident, then left the scene and went to dinner with the then-prime minister in the royal palace. He also confirmed that some of the victims' injuries–including broken teeth and swollen eyes–could have been caused during the transfer.
Furthermore, in March 2005, the Social Development and Human Security Commission of the Senate reported to its president that various forms of torture were carried out by military, police and official personnel. The protestors were ordered to take off their shirts and lie in the mud with their hands tied behind the backs; they were allegedly forced to move around on the ground like mudskippers; they were kicked and beaten while on the ground.
Their findings reported that the men were then piled in the trucks in four or five layers–about 50 to 60 people to each truck–for between five and six hours while they drove 160 kilometers, and that the perpetrators knew that deaths had occurred. The report further stated that the authorities could have easily foreseen the fatal effect of this treatment. It recommended investigations, leading to charges. The report was also given to the court by Dr. Niran Pitakwatchara, the chairman of the commission, when he testified.
Some 85 persons died that day, 78 of them after being arrested (UA-143-2004). A politically-appointed inquiry found that three army officers were responsible for the deaths but despite this no criminal inquiries have followed (AHRC-OL-008-2007; UP-025-2005; Tak Bai & Krue Se Reports on The Nation website). Instead the state chose to prosecute the surviving victims, though the case was dropped last year due to a lack of evidence. On March 20, 2007, the Pattani Provincial Court awarded about 42 million Thai baht (one million USD) to the families of the 78 victims in compensation.
However no one has been punished. The public prosecutor in Narathiwat province filed for a judicial inquest into the killings, which opened in 2005 and tried to clarify the circumstances of the deaths and find out who was responsible. The public prosecutor applied for the case to be transferred to Bangkok for better security, however the central court would only let it be transferred to the neighbouring province of Songkhla. The hearing took place at the Songkhla Provincial Court, Case No. Chor 16/2548.
The AHRC has dealt with various cases in Thailand, in which the police and military have been acquitted of large scale killings. In such cases the testimonies of witnesses against the official line are often sidelined, or completely overlooked. This was the case in UAU-066-2008: in which 19 men were shot dead by police in Songkhla province (also please see Court ignores facts of Sabayoi killings).
In Thailand senior army officers have typically enjoyed full impunity for their actions. When 28 persons were killed inside Krue Se Mosque on 28 April 2004 three senior army officers were charged with their deaths, but so far no progress seems to have been made in prosecuting the three (UP-028-2007).
Under Criminal Procedure Law in Thailand a prosecutor has the responsibility to exhaust all possible means when it comes to holding the security forces accountable for alleged abuses. In the inquisitorial system judges are similarly obliged to conduct the whole trial in pursuit of truth and justice. All evidence, it goes without saying, should be taken into account.
Yet here public prosecutors are seen acting in defense of the security forces; the judges act according to the accusatorial system, in which their power is limited; the inquest procedure has not allowed relatives of the victims to present evidence, and has left them reliant upon the approval and the discretion of the prosecutor. As a result the relatives of victims must rely on their lawyers to prove a case by asking crucial questions avoided by the prosecutor. Lastly, the court has a duty to rule on the cause and circumstance of death, which it has not done. The legal system has proved a spectacular let down for the 78 men who lost their lives at Tak Bai. Systematic brutality has been given the Thai stamp of approval and impunity once again, has been extended to Thai officials. There is little to celebrate in this verdict.
Please refer to our earlier appeals and sample letters for further information and action.