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The Herald-Sun--Unsurprisingly--Defends the Status Quo
In a development that would surprise only those who have spent the last two years living under a rock, the Bob Ashley-led Herald-Sun editorial board has criticized the lawsuit filed by the unindicted players.
Ashley & Co. condescendingly note that members of the team "went through some pretty tough times"—a development that would puzzle those who only read the Herald-Sun, which has never mentioned any such events before yesterday's editorial. The editorial also bizarrely asserts that the players were "probably criticized and ostracized by some on campus." Probably? Does Ashley doubt the claim?
The H-S legal/editorial team, however, reasons that the lawsuit "almost seems to trivialize the concept of damages."
It's worth evaluating Ashley by his own standards. In a summer 2007 interview, he described the paper's editorial performance in the following manner: "We were opinionated, but we were fair."
That record included the following March 28, 2006 editorial (which Ashley defended in an interview with the Chronicle):
When police officers arrived at the house with a search warrant on March 16, none of the players would cooperate with the investigation [sic] . . . The allegations of rape bring the students' arrogant frat-boy culture to a whole new, sickening level. 'Get a conscience, not a lawyer,' read [potbangers'] signs waved in front of the house on Sunday. We agree that the alleged crime isn't the only outrage. It's also outrageous that not a single person who was in the house felt compelled to step forward and tell the truth about what happened [sic].
Ashley, in short, doesn't seem to be someone particularly well-qualified to evaluate fairness.
[Update, 9.30am ET]: As a reminder that the best paper in Durham isn't the H-S, Kristin Butler pens yet another must-read column. Her conclusion on the suit:
Don't expect admins to acknowledge that is was their unique combination of ignorance, arrogance and denial that brought us to this point.
But the inconvenient and unavoidable truth now seems to be that in his haste to avoid the perception "that a well-connected institution was improperly attempting to influence the judicial process" back in March 2006, Brodhead created many more problems than he solved.
In their apologia for the Group of 88's statement, the "clarifying" faculty decried—without providing any evidence—an atmosphere that allowed "sexual violence to be so prevalent on campus."
In a stunning piece for City Journal, Heather McDonald deconstructs the assumptions behind this claim. Since the late 1980s, ideologues have claimed that between 20 and 25 percent of college women will be victims of sexual assault. That figure, McDonald notes, would imply "a crime wave of unprecedented proportions"—ten times the rate of all violent crimes in violence-ridden Detroit.
The lack of any evidence to corroborate their assertions, McDonald observes, doesn't deter ideologues like the "clarifying" faculty. Instead, it means "that the abuse of coeds is worse than anyone had ever imagined. It means that consultants and counselors need more funding to persuade student rape victims to break the silence of their suffering."
And, of course, more faculty who think like the Group of 88.
Posted by kcjohnson9 at 3:15 AM
The incomparably bold and brave Kristin Butler in today's Duke Chronicle.
The Herald Sun and Bob Ashley are a joke. You might want to check out Barry Saunder's latest in the N&O.
What has been interesting about these op/eds is that they don't supply any arguments disputing the allegations made in the lawsuits. As a matter of a fact, I am not convinced the writers have even read them. It is just the players are whiners and greedy. Frankly, I can't believe the N&O allows Saunders to write the things he does. He simply hates "white,rich" men. It shouldn't matter if these young men are "popular" and whether they had "underage drinking and noise violations", it is about whether Duke/Durham are quilty. It would be very interesting to hear Saunder's take on this case had the young men involved had been African American. Somehow I think he would be singing an entirely different tune.
Duke/Durham should be held accountable for their actions if found guilty - no matter how much Saunders and others dislike the plaintiffs.
I am so glad that Ms. MacDonald cites your landmark book in her article, Prof. Sadly, with no authority beyond hysterical ipse dixits, it is likely that radical feminists will resort to personal attacks on Ms. MacDonald and screech and moan that "there MUST be a rape crisis!"
As Ms. MacDonald points out, the radical feminist mantra that disparages college men in general by asserting that a sizable percentage of them are rapists is premised on a discredited study finding that a fifth to a quarter of all college women will be raped or will be the targets of attempted rape by the end of their college years. Not only is this conclusion absurd on its face, but it was based on a study where the vast majority of the women who were supposedly raped admitted that even they didn't think they'd been raped. One wonders how the purported assailants could have known they were committing rape if their "victims" didn't even realize it. I know: rape must be a "secret" crime!
As Ms. MacDonald points out, if there were a "rape crisis" along the magnitude proffered by radical feminists, our college campuses would resemble proverbial Dodge City in terms of lawlessness and there would be cries to banish males from campus. Does this reflect reality? The question scarcely survives its statement.
Another foolish and diseased column from Durham resident Saunders
Thomas Sowell's bad times at the Times.
The Herald Sun is proof positive that brain death is not fatal in Durham.
Ashley has never been "fair" in this whole ordeal. Maybe if you compare him to a leader (or a cheerleader, since no one can accuse Ashley of being a "leader",) who is interrupted in his solemn duty: to hang a couple of innocent young men - (after castration, of course) - and who later says, after being thwarted:
"I think I was fair. None of the boys got hung, did they? They still have all their parts. What are they complaining about?"
Same goes for Saunders, who is too stupid to recognize any historical similarities to the lynchmob of past days. And add to them the 88, who are rightly called the "Klan of 88."
JLS says...,
I find this redistributional view of damages very interesting. Like the idea that you should tax the income of the more productive at a higher rate than the less productive, it seems that damages according to the Herald-Sun should also be linked to income, ie progressive.
There have been some moves to make penalties in the law related to income. For example this has been done in Europe concerning speeding tickets and a Swiss driver was fined 6 figures in the last few years. Still this progressive damages view is unusual.
BTW, many of these guys are in fact college students still and as I have point out time and time again, have no little income or assets. When you are over 21, having rich parents does not make you rich.
I wish to thank Barry Saunders and those of G-88's mentality for stripping me of the tolerance my parents instilled in me from a young age. Their vitriol has made me realize, that as a middle-age white male, it's okay for me to be as racist as they.
I was brought up believing everyone was supposed to be equal and we would eliminate bigotry through perseverance. But alas, it's not to be.
Through their demonstrable hatefulness for white people, they are telling me and all other whites, it's fine to reply in kind. I didn't march for their civil rights in the 60's to become a second class citizen to them.
I know KC will take this post down and I don't blame him, I just want them to know what they have created through their narrow mindedness. And the sad thing about this; I'm sure I'm not alone in this thought.
W. R. Chambers said...
There are lots of lousy editorials every day. Many are annoying and pompous even when they express a point of view the reader agrees with. We could do without them.
But citizens can not do without accurate reporting. No level of government - of democratic governmnet - will work in the absence of accurate reporting. Much of the misery surrounding the Nifong case was caused by lousy, lazy, hysterical, drumbeating reporting, particularly at the H-S.
Such reporting is a kind of public health hazard, which is one reason why Durham is ailing now.
"you should tax the income of the more productive at a higher rate than the less productive, it seems that damages according to the Herald-Sun should also be linked to income, ie progressive."
Everything before the comma in your quote above describes the core of socialism. Everything after the comma is about the Herald-Sun. It's not at all surprising the two are tied together in the same sentence!
On a different note, 90% of what Barry S writes matches his initials: BS. If the N&O fired him(fat chance), it would be addition by subtraction.
TO 4:26 PM--
Why don't some of you send complaints to the N&O publisher Orage Quarles III--(oquarles@newsobserver.com)?
He might not fire anyone; however, there is no question that he watches readership closely.
Every time I send an email criticizing a columnist or whatever, I forward a copy to Quarles.
He's a real Lefty and I guess he can't help that, but he's a fair man and he's overridden the editorial staff on my behalf on a few occasions.
There just isn't the necessary volume of complaints for him to put a damper on what the editorial page allows.
If there were, they wouldn't keep elevating the Gang of 88 as they love to do.
My complaint to Quarles is that Saunders is allowed to write just about any kind of trash he wishes, but the editorial page--letters, etc.....--are edited down to only what they want to print.
A few months ago, I sent a letter praising an editorial about an honoring ceremony of a fallen soldier in Iraq.
The woman who is on the N&O editorial staff--Brigetta--didn't want to run it.
Why? Who knows? I suppose anything positive with regard to Iraq they want to stifle.
As a result, I called her up and told her that if her behavior continued I was going to personally contact McClatchy and let them know that she is inhibiting free speech on the editorial page.
I then said---"You guys were abominable during the lacrosse case! You almost destroyed any credibility you have! Do you recall when you would not print my scathing rebuttals to Tyson and Gurganus? !!! But you keep printing their bile!"
Then, the Diva screamed--"Joe Neff saved your newspaper!"
"I'm going to take this up with Orage Quarles! Maybe he can do something about you!"
The next day my little short letter was printed.
You see, you have to let them know that they will be forced to allow every point-of-view.
More of you should send letters to both the H-S and the N&O.
It does make a difference.
It never ceases to amaze me how the so-called unbiased press and academia that is "so concerned about human rights" should again and again demonstrate how they utterly lack anything approaching a moral core. The lax players were victims of a college administration who were to anxious to cave to political correctness and NAACP posturing as well as a police department and district attorney's office who sought to show the electorate that "white northern boys" can't think that they have a real right to live here in the South because Durham still believes (or a certain portion of it) that they are fighting the last battle of the Civil War and this time they don't plan to surrender as did Lee at Appomattox. How else to explain the pusillanimous statements from Duke officials and the BOT; the columns that appear in the local paper (the Chronicle excepted); as well as the national press (THe New York Times); and the utterings from the Durham police and city officials that demonstrate that Durham really is in a world of its own.
I'm glad KC covered the Heather McDonald article.
Talk about comprehensive!
Ultra-feminists and agenda-hacks like Tara Levicy wish to promote a scenario akin to the Jodie Foster film from the '90s in which she was gang-raped in the pool room of a bar after having been drinking there one night.
Can't recall the name of the film at this moment; however, that's the type of scenario they love: "A girl from the wrong side of the tracks....loose.....cheap....but working to make a living the best that she can.....only to be raped and beaten and treated like an object by drunken brutes."
Sander's column as other have said about previous such columns is just more evidence how these guys were slimed by this, whether they have ever had a ticket or not.
And really all these Durmite are the ones crying. It was ok for them to sick the cops on Duke students, Duke lacrosse players particularly, etc, but now that it is time to pay the piper, they object. And the best objection they can come up with is these guys families already have some money.
anon 4:26 I was not surprised that people who agree with the gang of 88 would favor "progressive" damage payments. And yes I did notice it, as I wrote it.
I no longer waste my time reading Saunders. I do wonder, however, if his continued attacks might toll the statute of limitations on possible causes of actions against the N&O.
I can't help but hope, someone, at sometime files suit against the media.
Re: "Ashley & Co. condescendingly note that members of the team "went through some pretty tough times"…
(Hmmm, the sensational subject of 'National News' stories, just your everyday 'pretty rough' times for Duke students? One could say 'Pretty Ugly' times too!)
Flashback:
-Duke Invites Seligmann, Finnerty to Return-ABC News and ABC11 Eyewitness News
Article discusses the Duke Letter
Revealing excerpts:
[circumstances warrant that we strike this balance differently] …. [unwarranted harm to your educational progress.] … [the circumstances in this case have changed substantially,]…["We have decided that the 'RIGHT and FAIR' thing to do is to welcome back Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty to resume their studies at Duke…]
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4902218
Well, there was a shooting in Durham at the La Luna nightclub over the weekend.
This is what a social disaster looks like. There may have been underage drinking, there certainly was assault. And noise. Don't forget the noise. Something happened.
I've been waiting for some sign that that the G88 was going to reach out to the local community with offers to do potbanging, burn the nightclub down, lecture on parenting, etc.
I am wringing my hands in dismay over their silence. I am so angry I could just clench my tiny fists.
If rape is such a problem on campus
why can't young women have their own dorms again with security and privacy? I certainly wouldn't want to live in the chaos created by progressive housing on campus.There is a lsck of common sense in this.
Bob Ashley and the Hurled Scum don't meet the journalistic standards of a high school newspaper. On second thought they don't even meet the standards of the local neighborhood bargain trader rag. They simply refuse to report the truth and engage in the same pandering, revisionist history as the Group of 88 on a revival tour. Honest self reflection for Bob Ashley is non-existant.
I still maintain that the chickens will not come home to roost until the 4th estate is confronted by the undying light of the truth. I'm hopeful that the next round of legal actions are aimed at the MSM - NYTs,Washington Post, Fox and of course the insignificant yet deserving Bob Ashley and the Hurled Scum.
Perhaps it is very hard to prove libel and slander as the legal threshold is quite high. However, a series of legal actions would force the mainstream media to face their own lurid story as it relates to this case.
Barry Sanders is small potatoes compaired to a blog site called Us Verus Them. They have a piece up called Gold Digging Lax Playes Sue Duke. This will make you crazy.
Some newspapers are fit only to
line the bottom of bird cages.
-Spiro T. Agnew
The Butler article notes that Duke has hired Jamie Gorelick for the case. She was a memeber of the 9/11 Commission which incensed a lot of people. Ashcroft insisted that the "single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents" and that Gorelick, as Deputy Secretary in the Justice department under Clinton, built that wall through a March 1995 memo. FWIW, The Commission rejected the idea that Gorelick, one of their own, created the wall between the FBI and the intelligence community.
Jim in San Diego said...
Evidence is beginning to accumulate that the ringleader of Duke's craven response to the hoax is Mr. Robert Steel, Chairman of the BOT.
Readers are invited to visit "Liestoppers", and read in particular the last couple of dozen readers' comments under the blog essay by Joan Foster concerning Mr. Steel's behavior and words.
Witnesses exist.
No one should feel that there is nothing shocking left to learn. There appears to be much more to come.
Very Nifong. We may need a new verb: "I was Steeled".
This revelation is a great victory for all of blogdom.
Jim Peterson
No race-class-gender stories to cover for MSM:
Lax: Duke enjoys quiet after media storm
"An opinion with no evidence is agenda."
Barry Saunders is Mr. Agenda. Has he ever provided evidence for one of his opinions? I knew he would strike again. He will circle around Duke's shame for years to come, occasionally swooping in to feed.
One of the great hypocrisies is how "columnists" like Saunders can write race-baiting trash with impunity; yet, the phrase "water buffalo" or "tarred and feathered" is attacked with real threats of expulsion.
I think Saunders has the right to write anything he wants that is not defamatory, dangerous or treasonous. We, of course, have the right to criticize him.
The politically correct, however, do things differently. In abridging the rights of non-minorities to speak their minds, they telegraph the message that minorities are so weak that they need protection from words. That's a pretty degrading view of other human beings.
Now the FBI is going to investigate Roger Clemons for lying to Congress...
How about making bootlicker-Brodhead and Bobby Steel testify in front of Congress - so that someone from the Incestuous Department might investigate them, too?
Maybe someone should start a rumor that Brodhead is taking steroids - (or estrogen, in the form of HRT) in order to give him that extra little wriggle to his walk.
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RAD lodging, apartment project to take center stage
Posted on November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017 by Carolyn Morrisroe
HEART OF THE RIVER ARTS: Asheville City Council will take up consideration of the proposed Stoneyard Apartments, which would bring 133 residential units, commercial space and a restaurant to the former JR Stone Sales and Carolina Coal and Ice building on Lyman Street. Image courtesy of the city of Asheville
ASHEVILLE — The River Arts District will again take the spotlight at the next Asheville City Council meeting, on Tuesday, Nov. 14. First onstage will be the Stoneyard Apartments project, followed in the revue by whether or not to allow short-term lodging in the RAD, and ending with an encore production of parking concerns.
Asheville City Council will designate Nov. 11-19 as National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
Council will consider a motion to expedite the capital improvement project budget timetable to give Council the opportunity for more feedback earlier in the overall budget process.
In fiscal year 2016-17, Asheville allocated more than $148,000 in Emergency Solutions Grant funds to various agencies working to address homelessness. A finance subcommittee has since reviewed the projects and came up with a list of proposed recipients of next year's grant funds, if they are again awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On the consent agenda is a resolution to apply for ESG funds and distribute them to Helpmate, Homeward Bound of WNC, the Salvation Army and the city's Homeless Information Management System.
Earlier this year, Council voted to increase the city's matching contribution to the retirement plans for the firefighters of Asheville Fire and Rescue from 2 percent to 4 percent. Human Resources has since found that doing so necessitates replacing the department's existing 401(a) plan with a 457(b) deferred compensation plan so firefighters still have the option of not contributing the full 4 percent from their salaries. An item on the consent agenda authorizes switching the retirement plan type.
Council will consider allotting $43,000 of already-awarded grant funds from the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program for a DWI simulator and training for the Asheville Police Department.
Also on the consent agenda is a budget amendment of $402,331 to pay for one additional year of the DWI Task Force, a joint effort of the Asheville Police Department and Buncombe County Sheriff's Office. The task force began operating in 2014 after receiving a grant from the North Carolina Governor's Highway Safety Program. The city of Asheville will match 75 percent of its portion with $200,494, and Buncombe County will match 75 percent of its portion with $101,254. That money will go toward the salaries for six officers focusing on DWI enforcement.
Council will hear updates from the Neighborhood Advisory Committee and Blue Ribbon Committee on the Human Relations Commission.
At its Oct. 6 meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a request by Duncan Haggart to rezone his property at 12 Miami Circle, off Long Shoals Road in Arden, from an institutional zone to a community business II conditional zone for the purpose of constructing a drive-thru window at the Pizza Hut. City Council will hold a public hearing on the matter on Nov. 14.
Council will consider conditional zoning of property located at 175 Lyman St. in the River Arts District for the development of a 133-unit apartment complex, commercial space, a restaurant and a parking structure. Now the location of J.R. Stone Sales, the property is adjacent to the future location of a roundabout to be built where the road takes a sharp bend. In June, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend City Council approve the zoning request for the Stoneyard Apartments after considering the project's location on a floodplain and lack of affordable units. Council was slated to hold a hearing on the project in August but continued the matter at the applicant's request.
A plan to institute a form-based zoning code in the River Arts District is slated again to be heard at City Council. The code, two years in the making, would create seven districts in the RAD designed to create a healthy mix of development. In July, Council voted 4-3 in favor of the zoning code, directing staff to take out lodging facilities of 20 rooms or fewer as a use-by-right from the mixed-use districts. Council remanded the code back to the Planning and Zoning Commission to get further public input on lodging uses. P&Z took up the question at its Sept. 6 meeting and rejected Council's suggestion to remove lodging as a permitted use, favoring retaining the original draft of the zoning plan.
Another public hearing will take up the question of whether to get rid of reduced parking standards in the River Arts District, a reduction that was adopted in 2011 before RAD's resurgence prompted calls for more parking availability in the neighborhood.
The RAD form-based code and parking proposals were scheduled to come back to City Council on Oct. 24, but at that meeting Mayor Esther Manheimer requested a continuation of those agenda items. Manheimer, an attorney, said she had been made aware that there was a challenge to her ability to vote on the River Arts District form-based code that required her to consult with the Bar Association.
Council will decide who to interview for the ABC Board, Firemen's Relief Fund and Homeless Initiative Advisory Committee.
Council will hear comment from members of the public on items not previously discussed on Council's agenda.
Asheville City Council meets at 5 p.m. in Council chambers on the second floor of City Hall at 70 Court Plaza, Asheville. The full meeting agenda and supporting documents can be found here.
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Unless you've been living under a rock over the festive season you've probably spotted friends and family recommending Netflix's massively popular Making A Murderer on every social media channel known to man.
Filmed over a 10-year period, the documentary follows Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
The gripping real-life story has inspired a massive online campaign to see Avery released and/or pardoned by President Obama. At the time of writing, more than 190,000 people have signed petitions on Change.org and the official White House website in support of Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey.
"Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey should be given a full pardon by President Obama for their wrongful conviction in the connection to the murder of Teresa Halbach", the petition on the official White House website states.
"Based on the evidence in the Netflix documentary series "Making a Murderer", the justice system embarrassingly failed both men, completely ruining their entire lives", it continues. The petition currently boasts about 20,000 signatures, but if it can reach 100,000 by January 16th The White House is obliged to respond.
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« Lecture | Page d'accueil | Think small (2) »
Think small
"Think Like a Freak", veut dire penser de manière plus efficace, plus créative, plus rationnelle aussi. Je viens de découvrir avec plaisir le dernier livre des deux auteurs bien connus par leurs publications précédentes (je ne les connaissais pas) lors de mon actuel séjour à Greenville, en Caroline du Sud. Voici plus loin quelques extraits.
To think like a Freak means to think small, not big. (…)..many of us think we know more than we do. It has to do with something we all carry with us everywhere we go, even though we may not consciously think about it: a moral compass. Each of us develop a moral compass (some stronger than others, to be sure) as we make our way through the world. This is for the most part a wonderful thing. Who wants to live in a world where people run around without regard for the difference between right and wrong? But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best way to start is by putting away your moral compass. Why? When you are consumed with the rightness or wrongness of a given issue –whether it's fracking or gun control or genetically engineered food –it's easy to lose track of what the issue actually is. A moral compass can convince you that all the answers are obvious (even when they are not); that there is a bright line between right and wrong (when often there isn't); and, worst, that you are certain you already know everything you know about a subject so you stop to learn more. (…)
Consider a problem like suicide. It is so morally fraught that we rarely discuss it in public...
(…) There are about 38,000 suicides a year in the United States, more than twice the number of homicides. Suicide is one of the top ten causes of death for nearly every age group. Because talking about suicide carries such strong moral taboo, these facts are little known. As of this writing [2014], the U.S. homicide rate is lower than it's been in fifty years. The rate of traffic fatalities is at a historic low, having fallen by two-thirds since the 1970s. The overall suicide rate, meanwhile, has barely budged- and worse yet, suicide among 15 to 24 year-old has tripled over the past several decades.
One might think, therefore, that by studying the preponderance of cases, society has learned everything possible about what leads people to commit suicide. David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than any other human. In more than twenty-five hundred academic publications, he has explored the relationship between suicide and, among other things, alcohol, anger, antidepressants, astrological signs, biochemistry, blood type, body type, depression, drug abuse, gun control, happiness, holidays, Internet use, IQ, mental illness, migraines, the moon, music, national-anthem lyrics, personality type, sexuality, smoking, spirituality, TV watching, and wide-open spaces.
Has all this study led Lester to some grand unified theory of suicide? Hardly. So far he has one compelling notion. It's what might be called the "no one left to blame" theory of suicide. While one might expect that suicide is highest among people whose lives are the hardest, research by Lester and others suggest the opposite: suicide is more common among people with a higher quality of life.
"If you are unhappy and you have something to blame your unhappiness on – if it's the government, or the economy, or something –then that kind of immunizes you against committing suicide", he says. "It's when you have no external cause to blame for your unhappiness that suicide becomes more likely. I've used this idea to explain why Afro-Americans have lower suicide rate, why blind people whose sight is restored often become suicidal, and why adolescent suicide rates often rise as their quality of life gets better."
That said, Lester admits that what he and other experts know about suicide is dwarfed by what is unknown. We don't know much, for instance, about the percentage of people who seek or get help before contemplating suicide. We don't know much about "suicidal impulse" –how much time elapses between a person's moral decision and action. We don't even know what share of suicide victims are mentally ill. There is so much disagreement on this issue, Lester says, that estimates range from 5 percent to 94 percent. "I'm expected to know the answers to questions such as why people kill themselves, "Lester says. "And myself and my friends, we often -when we're relaxing- admit that we really don't have a good idea why people kill themselves."
(...) Learn to say "I don't know". (…) If takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard is to admit you don't even know the right question. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost guaranteed to get the wrong answer. (…) Think like a child. (…) Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don't carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage. Preconceptions lead us to rule out a huge set of possible solutions simply because they seem unlikely or repugnant; (…) because they don't seem sophisticated enough. But remember, it was a child who finally pointed out that the Emperor's new clothes were in fact no clothes at all. Kids are not afraid to share their wildest ideas. As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad idea, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing. When it comes to generating ideas, the economic concept of "free disposal" is key. Come up with a terrible idea? No problem- just don't act on it. (….) So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.
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Home Parliamentary Business Committees Joint Committees Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services The impairment of customer loans Report Dissenting report: Labor committee members
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1.1 This inquiry was established to examine the impairment of customer loans as a matter of public interest. At the completion of this year-long inquiry and many hours of discussion with loan providers and banks, the committee was not able to obtain a satisfactory explanation for the spike in impaired commercial loans in the years following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Throughout the inquiry, loan providers consistently maintained that: they always acted in the best interests of the customer; the number of impairments was insignificant in relation to the volume of their business; and the process they initiated to recover funds was only started after the customer failed to meet their obligations. In stark contrast, many submissions suggested that bank behaviour appeared to be unusually aggressive in shutting down commercial loans. Some evidence suggested that the practices adopted by banks to handle impaired loans made it particularly difficult for loan customers to seek alternative financing and retain their businesses as a result of loan impairment.
1.2 Labor members of the committee believe that the causes of increased impairment of loans in the post-GFC period remain unclear. There are a number of complex factors, including increased pressure on financial institutions during their transition to a dramatically changed financial and economic environment post-GFC. The changed economic environment may have led to greater pressure on banks to generate higher return on equity, which could have been at the expense of consumer outcomes.
1.3 Labor members of the committee concur with most of the findings of the committee's majority report and its recommendations.
1.4 We agree with the finding that there has been a persistent pattern of abuse arising from the asymmetry of power in the relationship between lender and borrower. However, we do not agree that the evidence received in this inquiry is sufficient to conclude that there was no widespread or systemic illegal or unethical behaviour by banks.
1.5 Labor members of the committee believe that there is more evidence of banking misconduct that needs to be investigated. Recent media reports highlighting the Comminsure scandal, the tampering of loan documents (revealed on Four Corners, 1 May 2016), various financial planning scandals, bank bill swap rates and other matters indicate that there may be broader systemic issues with the behaviour of banks.
1.6 Labor members of the Committee consider that the evidence presented at the inquiry has highlighted the need for further examination of the banking and financial services sector, to examine:
how widespread instances of illegal and unethical behaviour are within Australia's financial services industry;
how Australia's financial services institutions treat their duty of care to their customers;
how the culture, ethical standards and business structures of Australian financial services institutions affect the behaviour of these institutions;
whether Australia's regulators are really equipped to identify and prevent illegal and unethical behaviour;
comparable international experience with similar financial services industry misconduct and best practice responses to those incidents; and
other events as may come to light in the course of investigating the above.
1.7 Labor members of the Committee believe that the handling of impaired customer loans by banks should be considered as part of any Royal Commission into the financial services industry.
1.8 Labor members of the Committee do not believe that the announcements made on the 20 April 2016 in the government's response to the ASIC Capability Review were sufficient to get to the bottom of the broader systemic issues in the industry.
1.9 The behaviour of banks and financial services companies, including that revealed in evidence to the Committee, has led to real reputational harm to Australia's financial services industry. Labor members of the Committee believe that a Royal Commission is the only way to restore confidence in the Australian financial services industry.
That a Royal Commission be established to examine the banking and financial sector, and particularly:
Senator Deborah O'Neill Senator Chris Ketter
Deputy Chair
Ms Julie Owens MP Mr Tim Watts MP
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Recent international tax and reporting prosecutions
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Foreign account, entity and investment prosecution
Igor Purlantov, a New York attorney, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 months in prison for fraudulently transferring more than $1 million from the bank accounts of a deceased California resident and then failing to pay taxes on that income. According to court documents, Purlantov defrauded a deceased family friend by fraudulently adding himself on to the friend's HSBC bank account in Geneva and then transferring more than $1 million to his own accounts in London before transferring some of the money to his accounts in New York. The defendant then failed to pay taxes on the stolen income. Purlantov agreed to fully reimburse the beneficiaries of his deceased friend $1,175,666 and to pay $293,048 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
Troy A. Beam, of Shippensburg, was sentenced to 74 months in prison for tax evasion, obstructing and impeding the due administration of the Internal Revenue laws, and willful failure to file federal income tax returns. According to evidence introduced at trial, Beam, a former certified public accountant and state auditor in the Pennsylvania Auditor General's Office, failed to file any federal income tax returns since April 1996. The evidence at trial proved that from 1999 to 2007, Beam earned more than $10.3 million in gross income from his various businesses but used North Star Investment Holdings Ltd. to set up a bank account in the Cayman Islands to hide his income and assets.
On September 29, 2011, in Pittsburgh, Pa., Dr. David P. Alan was sentenced to 21 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine for his conviction of tax evasion. According to information presented to the court, Alan engaged in a scheme to inflate cost of goods sold deductions for his limited liability corporation for tax year 2004 using an offshore shell corporation and bank account to reduce the income from his business reportable on his individual tax returns. Alan employed the same scheme in tax years 2001-2003, filing false individual joint tax returns for tax years 2001 and 2002.
James A. Simon was sentenced to 72 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $886,901 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) because he did not disclose that he had an interest in foreign bank accounts and did not file required Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs) with the Treasury Department regarding the foreign accounts.
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What Is Google AdWords? Is It Right For Your Trades Business?
Trades Business Tip: What Is Google AdWords? Should You Be Doing It?
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Click here to book a 10-minute chat with Jon.
If you'd rather read the transcript it's here below.
Google Adwords or Pay-Per-Click Advertising.
We're going to ignore Bing (I don't really care about Bing). I was inspired to write this because I saw a thread on the Builders Talk Group on Facebook where someone was asking so here you go. I'm going to try and help you navigate through this.
It's called that because you pay every time somebody clicks your ad. You put an ad and you get to decide when your ad shows based on the words that people type in the search box. Someone might type 'plumber Brunswick Heads' and you can have your ad show up there when someone types that. And if they click on your ad, you'll pay the money.
Now, it can be complicated. You can waste money easily and you can misdirect your funds so I don't propose that you do this yourself.
I'm Jon from Small Fish Business Coaching. I help my customers decide how to invest their marketing money to get the best return.
Investing in Google AdWords isn't always the best choice.
Certainly, I don't recommend a DIY approach, just like you probably don't recommend a DIY approach for building a house or doing a qualified tradesman job. I recommend that you engage an AdWords specialist to do this for you.
We direct a strategic campaign, not just shooting from the hip.
They know which trade they need – so their need comes and they know which trade they need to fix their problem.
And that's the thing. You don't know what they're going to choose. They have a need and they know which trade they want. They search on their phone, usually on their computer in Google, the trade name and the location name comes up on the search page, which I've drawn out for you on my high tech flip chart. I'll explain that in a moment.
They choose one and click on it based on what's written on that search page and they either click on the ad and go to your website or your landing page. Or they click straight to call and make a call.
There's a number of things going on. Once they get to your landing page, they decide whether to call you or enquire on your website of course. It's a bit complicated.
Someone with a need searched something.
There's what we call the organic listings below.
I'll explain what each one is. Ads are the ones people have paid for, usually there are 3 or 4. Google says that 70% of the clicks with commercial intent add up on an ad, which makes sense. What that means is more people who want to buy something will click on an ad, which makes sense because if there's an ad there, you know that they're selling the thing. And usually their ad copy, the writing, tells you that they're selling the thing, so you know you're in the right place. If you're wanting to buy something, I think that's a good place for trades. If you're wanting to buy a trade service and there's an ad that says we do this, you're likely to get a click.
Having said that, there's a map that shows people close by in the ads because you can pay to serve your ad. They might not be close by, so this is quite appealing for people as well.
And then the organic listings is Google's view of the most appropriate website for that searc phrase according to several hundred factors.
I usually say to my customers, "You want to be in all three. You want to be here and on the map and high up there. You've got three listings on page one. You're more likely to get a click and you're more likely to look credible that way." Of course, it costs money and time and not everybody is in a position to make that level of investment.
Let me talk to you about Google AdWords.
It's instant. You can get your ad there. Google lets everyone take a turn on who gets to be at the top of that page so your ads are getting shown.
Your money is getting spent. Your daily budget is going to get spent so you're going to get clicks from people who searched. If you write the ad properly and you choose your search words carefully, you don't waste that money.
You get people who really are interested in what you're selling.
I'll go through them briefly.
The bigger area you try and cover, the bigger the competition and the more you'll pay for your click. And the more specific you are, the less you'll pay for you click.
I think that people are increasingly typing their suburb, but not London. If I'm in London, in Northland, I don't want to Google 'plumber London' and get somebody from South London who's going to not want to come. I want somebody close at hand. And people have woken up to this now and aren't typing Sydney, or big city names anymore. They're typing suburbs and location specifiers near home, more specific ones, so think like that.
Think of all the names for your trade.
All those plus names for similar stuff. You don't know what they're going to search. You have to try and guess, and you have to try and cover all the bases.
Now, think about the ads. You have to write an ad. They see a nice ad with some words that say, 'Cabinet maker North Sydney, guaranteed fixed price quote, free quote' whatever. And you've got to write something there that attracts people to click on the ad. Some of them you can call directly from the ad, so you want to entice people to make the call. Tell them something nice about yourself and give them something that entices them.
The last thing is where they land. If they just land on your home page, that's one thing. If you have a landing page, a separate page on your website that's consistent with what you said in the ad, you get more clicks for your money, so that's a good thing too.
I'm running a workshop where I'll spend half an hour on this, not four minutes. And when I'm coaching people, I've got training videos that last for an hour each. There are 2 or 3 on this so there's more to it than I can get across in a short video. I hope this helps.
If you can make it to my workshop, it's over here in Australia in Byron Bay. It's $300 and there's a link on the screen there for you to click or to copy and paste into your browser if you want to learn more.
Jon likes helping business owners and especially owners of trades businesses. Life can be a bit frustrating when you run a business and a trade business can be even more so. Jon reckons this stuff is fixable and that you can fix it by making some fairly simple changes to the way you do things. In fact, he runs a free monthly webinar to help explain the process further of moving your business from manual to scalable.
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SEAARC Symposium Abstract 22: "Cities within Buildings: The Private Housing Complex and the Contingent Public, c.1960s"
Posted on December 1, 2014 by Chang Jiat Hwee
by Dr. Eunice Seng, The University of Hong Kong
This paper is based on ongoing comparative research on the high-rise high-density composite building – a large private housing complex often the size of a city block – that emerged in Hong Kong and Singapore in the 1960s. The composite building is inextricably intertwined in the geopolitics of urban transformation and a vital component of a larger network of ideas and discourses. In mapping the impetus behind and agencies involved in the construction of the composite building, this paper contends that during the period of zoning and legal ambiguities, there exists maximum potential in the intermixing of multiple publics and entities, planned and unplanned. To what extent does it embody the paradox of a model for social integration within a development schema? An examination of the composite building in the two post-colonial cities reveals the contingent status of the occupants and of the citizenry at large, which comprised a predominantly Chinese diaspora.
The composite building in Hong Kong, with its numerous ownerships and ceaseless waves of tenant occupation, poses a challenge for any enterprise to claim the site as a single legal entity. From the enactment of the 1956 Building Ordinance based on volumetric control to the 1962 amendment on plot ratio control through the 1970s, over 1,500 composite buildings above fifteen stories were built in Hong Kong. At least twenty contain populations the size of a town. Each occupies an entire urban block. The largest of these contains almost 10,000 inhabitants excluding unregistered tenants and illegal squatters. Emerging amidst the economic, social and political exigencies of post-war Hong Kong, the composite building exemplifies the paradox of collective sociability within an individual privatized space. Intended as a co-operative building in which every tenant would own his shop or apartment, it was an agglomeration of shops, factories, temples, clinics, crèches, dormitories, hostels and flats, etc. The architecture and organization manifest the way its developers, architects and builders projected the notions of a consumerist society: each square foot of habitation is rationalized and quantified. Yet the varieties of programs, spatial adaptations and contestations within testify to the combination of pragmatist
logic and human caprice that drives and defines the city.
In Singapore, the composite building was to a great degree complicit to the nation-building project. The State-sponsored and privately developed composite building is facing intense redevelopment pressure and the constant threat of demolition. Under the Urban Redevelopment Authority Sale of Sites program launched in 1967, the government consolidated small land plots in the downtown Central area and sold them to the private sector as part of its vision for a modern city-state based on a free market economy. Of the 143 projects, 14 are composite buildings with a residential component built between 1969 and 1979. This was a period when private and public interests in housing and its provisions were momentarily aligned. The private housing complex bore witness to how the various interests of the developer, the architect and the government-as-planner intersected to project the imaginings of the Chinese diaspora onto the podium-tower typology.
Eunice Seng (BAAS, NUS; MArch, Princeton; PhD, Columbia) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and founding principal of SKEW Collaborative, Shanghai-Hong Kong. Her research interests include the histories and theories of modernity, housing and the metropolis, politics of power and post-colonialism, inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches to architecture, as well as utopias, artifacts and their cultural representations. She is currently completing a book titled The Resistant City and co-editing a book on urban habitation with specific focus on Asia.
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Exhibiting a historian's archives: Kenneth Frampton at the CCA
Kumpulan Akitek: A pioneer architectural firm under the radar?
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Chang Jiat Hwee on The Singapore Conference Hall and the Singapore Polytechnic
Lay Hong Tan on The Singapore Conference Hall and the Singapore Polytechnic
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Controversy Police say 18-year-old Joseph Hayden Boston, was brought to a Riverside police station on Saturday by his mother after he allegedly told her he had sexually assaulted two boys, aged 8 and 4 at a motel.
With a meeting with experts, police said he admitted of sexually ambushing two kids at a motel and he confessed to attacking "50 kids" since he was 10-years of age.
He posted creepy photos and Status updates on Facebook before the arrest.
Before his Facebook page was brought down, Boston posted his picture with a younger child and wrote it online, "I like Making New companions." The photo was posted on November 21, just weeks previous to his capture.
People are expressing their negative views on social media regarding his strange social behavior recently.


Well after the success of the scan and print wrapping paper, it was time to step it up a notch or perhaps two. I have another friend who saw the Crow wrapping paper and, with a birthday coming up in June, wanted to know if she might get some special paper too. Coincidentally I had recently bought a lino printing kit as I wanted to experiment with some of the woodcut style drawings I have been drawing recently. So a plan started to form. My friend is a fire horse in Chinese Astrology so I started sketching out some friendly horses with fiery manes and tails. These we based on a photo I'd taken a couple of years ago of a children's book that had been discarded and found its way into the gutter near where I used to live.
Draft 1 actually turned out to be one of the better ones.
But 5 more drafts later I had the final image in my sketch pad which I then scanned and printed to create my template for the lino. Lino prints are always in reverse of the original drawn design due to the way the outline is transferred from original to lino, using the scan and print method I could have reversed the image in a graphics app and then it would have transferred to the lino the 'right way' round. I didn't, and that's not an issue for this print, just an observation for next time if it's needed.
Having printed out the design, the next step is to transfer it to the lino. To do this I went over the lines on the print out with a soft 6B pencil building up a thick layer of lead.
With the lines I wanted to transfer now highlighted, I lay the design face down on the lino. I used the back of a wooden spoon to rub the back of the paper attempting to transfer as much of the pencil line onto the lino as possible. That done, I removed the paper and traced over the barely visible lines on the lino with a HB pencil to mark where I needed to cut. I tried out each of the selection of cutting blades supplied with the kit and a happy while later, with all fingers still intact, I had cut out the body of the horse and marked out the other edges and border.
Time for a test print! My lino kit included an ink board, ink and a roller – the process is to roll out the ink on the ink board, working it until it is ready to roll onto the lino.
Fully 'inked up' the horse design took on a life of its own and I was ready to print. Unfortunately there's not a lot of information 'out there' on how to successfully create a print. There are cheap presses with bad reviews and expensive presses with good reviews, there's talk of rollers and wooden spoons. And no-one is ever sure whether it's lino or paper on top. I opted for paper on top and a good rub with the back to the wooden spoon – top left print.
So, not enough ink and a very patchy rub with the spoon. More ink and a more consistent rub with the spoon gave me print two – the top right one. The spoon rubbing was still patchy but the ink was better than the first press.
Press three, bottom left, I tried it all the other way up – paper on the bottom and lino on the top – and just pressed really hard with my hand and pressing all over with my fingers. It seemed to be a good solution. Press four, bottom right, was lacking in ink but still better than the first two.
Prints five to eight suffered from a lack of ink and at some point I converted from pressing with my hands to using the back of the spoon again.
Prints nine to twelve are another mixed bag – this lino printing is trickier than it looks!
So, that should be plenty of wrapping paper, thank you Horse!
What to do with the left over ink? Customise my notebook!
And finally I created a 'print', ready for signing, dating and framing.
If you'd like a copy of the Lino print wrapping paper then you can download an A4 sized image file here, just print it out to create the wrapping paper. There's also a version of the wrapping paper with one of the prototype horse designs which you can download here. If you enjoyed the article and love the paper then please consider sending me 99p in thanks here. Enjoy!
And that's it, pure and simple, the first and most important section of the book is learning how to start drawing with the right side of the brain rather than the left side. The premise is quite simple in that the left side of the brain is the logical side. It's interested in numbers, words, order and logic. And shortcuts. It gets bored easily if it's not calculating and evaluating and it's the left brain's fault that we, according to Betty Edwards, all stop drawing at around 12 years old. The right-side of the brain, however, is the seat of our creativity. It doesn't have words or language and doesn't understand time. If the conditions are right then the left-side hands over control to the right-side and we can create.
Now, there has been a lot of research lately that suggests the whole idea of a clear cut division between the logical, orderly left brain and the arty, wordless, timeless right side of the brain just doesn't exist. Brain functions can now be shown to take place in places across the whole brain, not specifically left- or right- brain areas. The current label for what we are talking about as 'right-brain' activity is possibly 'flow'. Flow is said to occur when one gets so involved in whatever task one is doing that time and general awareness diminish as we are totally absorbed in whatever we are doing, like arriving home and not remembering the last part of the journey [more info]. That said, I think left-brain and right-brain are still good descriptions for whatever is occurring when the changeover occurs but if you prefer you can think of it as entering a flow state of mind.
Well that's the theory, so how do we enter flow or switch to right-side brain work? Let's dig a little deeper into what happened to our drawing ability when we reached 12 years old and see what clues that reveals. Looking at my pre-instruction drawings (shown in Part 4 of this series) it's perhaps not fair to say I can't draw, more perhaps that my drawing ability is that of a 12 year old. That is to say my drawing ability didn't evolve past that of a 12 year old. Why is that? My writing, my maths and reading all continued evolving and growing as I studied them further to higher standards. Why did drawing stop?
Let's explore what happened first. According to Betty Edwards, the left-brain began to identify and create 'symbols' for things I wanted to draw. In the pre-instruction self-portrait I saw a face and the left-brain said "ah, you need two eyes, don't bother studying what they look like, I already know. Here's two eyes on your pad." And of course those two eyes were drawn as of when I last 'saw' and created my eye symbol, probably when I was around 12 years old and I have drawn eyes the same way ever since, and then having seen the eyes I usually draw I have decided I can't actually draw. Self-limiting belief.
So let's turn off the left-brain and its symbols and access the right-brain and its ability to see and recreate what is actually there. How do we do that? Exercise 1, copying pictures upside down. By copying pictures upside we immediately turn off the left-brain recognition ability and if it doesn't recognise what it's drawing then it can't throw in a symbol and say "job done". Rather it reluctantly hands over control to the right-brain to get on with what it considers a boring job of drawing what it sees. I say 'boring job' because there's a time in between giving control to the right-brain and the right-brain entering that flow-state that the left-brain will pester you and keep shouting 'Boring!' in your inner ear trying to persuade you to let it take over control again. As long as you are aware this will happen you can ignore it and persevere until that flow-state is reached and you'll find time disappears as you are wrapped up in the drawing process.
Remember my pre-instruction drawing of a person? Well here it is alongside the results of this first exercise.
Pre-instruction drawing of a person – what age ability would you say this is 9 years old? Perhaps 10? Drawn on 10th February 2016.
So here's a copy of a Picasso drawn just 2 days later. I'm not saying it's great but in 2 days I think my drawing ability has progressed by several years.
Again, not a masterpiece but at least a more accurate representation of what I saw rather than the symbols my left-brain usually provides. Perhaps I can draw after all, what a discovery 30 years after receiving the message that I am not artistic and living with that belief.
And if all this is so simple, then why are we not all taught how to overcome the left-brain's symbol creating tyranny and actually see and draw what is there. Why is it left to the lucky few that seem to be able to do this naturally, without instruction, who are called the gifted artists while the rest of us drop Art and become non-creatives, non-artists? Is it because the world of business doesn't need too many artists? Let's churn out worker bees out of the school system, suited for the office or factory. Heaven forbid we create a generation of people who can see the world about them for what it is rather than for the symbols they have been taught.


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export interface QueryResultType<T> {
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    fields: ReadonlyArray<FieldType>;
    notices: ReadonlyArray<NoticeType>;
    oid: number | null;
    rowAsArray: boolean;
    rowCount: number;
    rows: ReadonlyArray<T>;
}

export type QueryResultRowColumnType = string | number;
export type QueryResultRowType<ColumnName extends string = string> = {
    [name in  ColumnName]: QueryResultRowColumnType;
};

// TODO: Infer column names via generic
export type QueryAnyFirstFunctionType       = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowColumnType[]>;
export type QueryAnyFunctionType            = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowType[]>;
export type QueryFunctionType               = QueryMethodType<QueryResultType<QueryResultRowType>>;
export type QueryManyFirstFunctionType      = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowColumnType[]>;
export type QueryManyFunctionType           = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowType[]>;
export type QueryMaybeOneFirstFunctionType  = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowColumnType>;
export type QueryMaybeOneFunctionType       = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowType | null>;
export type QueryOneFirstFunctionType       = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowColumnType>;
export type QueryOneFunctionType            = QueryMethodType<QueryResultRowType>;

export interface CommonQueryMethodsType {
    any: QueryAnyFunctionType;
    anyFirst: QueryAnyFirstFunctionType;
    many: QueryManyFunctionType;
    manyFirst: QueryManyFirstFunctionType;
    maybeOne: QueryMaybeOneFunctionType;
    maybeOneFirst: QueryMaybeOneFirstFunctionType;
    one: QueryOneFunctionType;
    oneFirst: QueryOneFirstFunctionType;
    query: QueryFunctionType;
}

export interface CallSiteType {
    columnNumber: number;
    fileName: string | null;
    lineNumber: number;
}

export interface QueryContextType {
    /**
     * Unique connection ID
     */
    connectionId: string;
    /**
     * Instance of Roarr logger with bound query context parameters
     */
    log: LoggerType;
    /**
     * A copy of the query before `transformQuery` middleware
     */
    originalQuery: QueryType;
    /**
     * Unique connection pool ID
     */
    poolId: string;
    /**
     * Unique query ID
     */
    queryId: QueryIdType;
    stackTrace: CallSiteType[] | null;
    /**
     * `process.hrtime.bigint()` for when query was received.
     */
    queryInputTime: number;
    /**
     * Unique transaction ID
     */
    transactionId?: string;
}

//
// SQL (TAGGED TEMPLATE)
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface TaggedTemplateLiteralInvocationType {
    sql: string;
    type: typeof SlonikSymbol.SqlTokenSymbol;
    values: ValueExpressionType[];
}

export const sql: SqlTaggedTemplateType;

export interface SqlTaggedTemplateType {
    (template: TemplateStringsArray, ...vals: ValueExpressionType[]): SqlSqlTokenType;
    identifier: (names: string[]) => IdentifierTokenType;
    raw: (rawSql: string, values?: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[]) => RawSqlTokenType;
    tuple: (values: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[]) => TupleSqlTokenType;
    tupleList: (tuples: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[][]) => TupleListSqlTokenType;
    unnest: (tuples: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[][], columnTypes: string[]) => UnnestSqlTokenType;
    valueList: (values: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[]) => ValueListSqlTokenType;
}

export interface SqlFragmentType {
    parameters: PrimitiveValueExpressionType[];
    sql: string;
}

//
// POOL
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface PoolContextType {
    /**
     * Instance of Roarr logger with bound connection context parameters
     */
    log: LoggerType;
    /**
     * Unique connection pool ID
     */
    poolId: string;
    /**
     * The query that is initiating the connection
     */
    query: TaggedTemplateLiteralInvocationType | null;
}

export function createPool(
    connectionConfiguration: DatabaseConfigurationType,
    clientUserConfiguration?: ClientUserConfigurationType
): DatabasePoolType;

//
// TRANSACTION
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export type TransactionFunctionType<T> = (
    connection: DatabaseTransactionConnectionType
) => Promise<T>;

//
// INTERCEPTOR
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface InterceptorType {
    afterPoolConnection?: (
        connectionContext: ConnectionContextType,
        connection: DatabasePoolConnectionType
    ) => MaybePromiseType<void>;
    afterQueryExecution?: (
        queryContext: QueryContextType,
        query: QueryType,
        result: QueryResultType<QueryResultRowType>
    ) => MaybePromiseType<QueryResultType<QueryResultRowType>>;
    beforePoolConnection?: (
        connectionContext: PoolContextType
    ) => MaybePromiseType<DatabasePoolType | null | undefined>;
    beforePoolConnectionRelease?: (
        connectionContext: ConnectionContextType,
        connection: DatabasePoolConnectionType
    ) => MaybePromiseType<void>;
    beforeQueryExecution?: (
        queryContext: QueryContextType,
        query: QueryType
    ) => MaybePromiseType<QueryResultType<QueryResultRowType> | undefined>;
    transformQuery?: (
        queryContext: QueryContextType,
        query: QueryType
    ) => MaybePromiseType<QueryType>;
}

/**
 * Default interceptors:
 * - [Field name transformation interceptor](https://github.com/gajus/slonik#field-name-transformation-interceptor)
 * - [Query normalization interceptor](https://github.com/gajus/slonik#query-normalization-interceptor)
 *
 * See official [readme](https://github.com/gajus/slonik#default-interceptors) for more information.
 */
export function createInterceptorPreset(): InterceptorType[];

export function createFieldNameTransformationInterceptor(configuration: {
    format: string,
    test?: (field: FieldType) => boolean
}): InterceptorType;
export function createQueryNormalizationInterceptor(configuration?: {
    stripComments?: boolean;
}): InterceptorType;
export function createBenchmarkingInterceptor(): InterceptorType;

//
// TYPE PARSER
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface TypeParserType<T = unknown> {
    /**
     * Value of "pg_type"."typname" (e.g. "int8", "timestamp", "timestamptz")
     */
    name: string;
    parse: (value: string) => T;
}

export function createBigintTypeParser(): TypeParserType<number>;
export function createTimestampTypeParser(): TypeParserType<number | null>;
export function createTimestampWithTimeZoneTypeParser(): TypeParserType<number | null>;

/**
 * Default type parsers.
 *
 * These interceptors are enabled by default:
 * - `int8`: Produces an integer.
 * - `timestamp`: Produces a unix timestamp (in milliseconds).
 * - `timestamptz`: Produces a unix timestamp (in milliseconds).
 */
export function createTypeParserPreset(): TypeParserType[];

//
// CLIENT
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export interface ClientConfigurationType {
    /** Dictates whether to capture stack trace before executing query. Middlewares access stack trace through query execution context. (Default: true) */
    captureStackTrace?: boolean;

    /** Timeout (in milliseconds) after which an error is raised if cannot cannot be established. (Default: 5000) */
    connectionTimeout?: number;

    /** Timeout (in milliseconds) after which idle clients are closed. (Default: 5000) */
    idleTimeout?: number;

    /** Do not allow more than this many connections. (Default: 10) */
    maximumPoolSize?: number;

    /** Add more server connections to pool if below this number. (Default: 1) */
    minimumPoolSize?: number;

    /**
     * An array of [Slonik interceptors](https://github.com/gajus/slonik#slonik-interceptors)
     */
    interceptors?: InterceptorType[];
    /**
     * An array of [Slonik type parsers](https://github.com/gajus/slonik#slonik-type-parsers)
     */
    typeParsers?: TypeParserType[];
}

// tslint:disable-next-line no-empty-interface
export interface ClientUserConfigurationType extends ClientConfigurationType {}

//
// ERRORS
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
export class SlonikError extends Error {}
export class NotFoundError extends SlonikError {}
export class DataIntegrityError extends SlonikError {}
export class IntegrityConstraintViolationError extends SlonikError {}
export class NotNullIntegrityConstraintViolationError extends IntegrityConstraintViolationError {}
export class ForeignKeyIntegrityConstraintViolationError extends IntegrityConstraintViolationError {}
export class UniqueIntegrityConstraintViolationError extends IntegrityConstraintViolationError {}
export class CheckIntegrityConstraintViolationError extends IntegrityConstraintViolationError {}


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Bern Theatre, known in the city as Stadttheater Bern, is an opera house and theatre in Bern, Switzerland. The theatre opened in 1903 and was modernised between 2015–2016 with significant structural changes made to the backstage and auditorium.

The theatre took on a new trading name from the 2011/2012 season through to the 2020/2021 as Konzert Theatre Bern representing the four different sections of the theatre; the Bern Symphony Orchestra (BSO), Musiktheater (Opera), Schauspiel (Theatre) and Tanz (Dance).

Starting in the season of 2021 / 2022 the theatre will be known as Bühnen Bern.

Famous past performers include Robin Adams, Agnes Baltsa, Inge Borkh, Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Salvatore Fisichella, Käthe Gold, Norma Sharp, Alexander Moissi, Jessye Norman, Liselotte Pulver, Will Quadflieg, Nello Santi, Christine Schäfer, Maria Schell, and Rolf Schimpf.

Further reading

References

External links
Website as of season 2021/2022
Website until season 2020/2021

Theatres in Bern
Opera houses in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Bern
Tourist attractions in Bern


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Leach's 'We Have It All' Is Solid Swedish Metalcore with a Relateable, Angry Sensibility
by nozucker13
Leach's 'We Have It All' is solid Swedish metalcore with a relatable, angry sensibility. "Originating from Borås (near Gothenburg)," they say, "LEACH started out in their early teens 2003 as a project at their local youth center." Since then, they've put out a series of demos as well as their 2012 full-length release and an EP in 2014. Now, they're working on their sophomore full-length effort titled, Hymns for the Hollow. These guys definitely really channel the Hatebreed. At it's core, this is a ballsy, in-your-face American-style hardcore track. At the same time, it seems like there's kind of a radio rock sensibility on here. Some parallels can definitely be drawn between these guys and acts like Volbeat and Five Finger Death Punch. There's a bro hymn, scream-along quality here that you know would leave an arena crowd losing its shit. This is a fun track from a group of metalcore veterans. Check out 'We Have It All' below!
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New York City will pay $750,000 to woman who was shackled during labor
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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NEW YORK - A woman who accused the New York Police Department of keeping her shackled for hours while she was in active labor has settled her lawsuit against New York City for $750,000, her lawyers said.
Police arrested the woman, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, for a minor charge in 2018. At the time, she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, the lawsuit said. She said cops handcuffed and shackled her while she was in labor and after she gave birth, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn by The Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP.
In a news release announcing the settlement, Anne Oredeko, supervising attorney of the racial justice unit at The Legal Aid Society, called shackling pregnant people a "dehumanizing and pointless practice that has no place in New York City."
"All New Yorkers should be appalled that the NYPD continues to fail people giving birth at one of the most important and vulnerable moments in their lives," Oredeko said, "and I am outraged at how this practice consistently targets out Black and Latinx women and people who give birth for treatment no one deserves."
Katherine Rosenfeld, a partner at Emery Celli, said the NYPD's policies for shackling pregnant people "are decades behind mainstream law enforcement standards and an embarrassment to the City."
The lawsuit claimed that police officers drove the woman, identified as Jane Doe, to various holding cells and then to Kings County Hospital after arresting her. She was handcuffed in the ambulance en route to the hospital even though she was in active labor and in a great deal of pain, according to the lawsuit.
After giving birth, the woman struggled to feed her newborn with one arm cuffed to the hospital bed, the lawsuit said.
"The first breath that this baby had on this earth was one born out of violence. That was violence, what the NYPD did to her," Oredeko said. "While we know that this settlement will not completely right the injustice that our client suffered, we hope that it will provide some sense of closure, allowing her and her son to move on with their lives."
Ultimately, a court dismissed all the charges against the woman, her lawyers said.
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A reporter on Thursday asked Mayor Bill de Blasio about the $750,000 settlement, which a Law Department spokesperson confirmed this week.
"Obviously, I think that that was inhumane, and we don't want to see that ever happen again," de Blasio said during a virtual news briefing.
In 2020, the NYPD revised its patrol guide to limit the circumstances in which police officers should apply restraints to pregnant women prior to arraignment. But the Legal Aid lawyers said the revised policies are still "vague and inadequate" and won't prevent the use of the "barbaric practice."
"We hope to never see these abhorrent abuses committed by the NYPD again," Oredeko said, "but sadly the NYPD has failed to change their policies to adequately ensure that a violation like this will never happen again."
The revised patrol guide allows a supervising officer to determine if a less restrictive method of restraint is appropriate based on factors including whether a detainee is in labor.
"Jane Doe is a fierce champion for justice, and we urge the City Council to take up her efforts, change the local laws on shackling pregnant people," Rosenfeld said, "and force the NYPD to finally ban handcuffing women who are about to give birth or who have just brought a child into the world."


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Inside Brian Barczyk's Unique Career As A Reptile Breeder
By Mausam Bhattarai
Brian Barcyzk is a reptile breeder and snake conservationist who rose to fame after he started to post vlogs on YouTube featuring one of the world's largest snake collections that he owns.
Barcyzk is one of the most experienced snakes and reptiles experts on the planet, and he even hosted Discovery channel's A-tier show, Venom Hunter, which aired for the first time on February 17, 2016.
Love for Snakes Turned Into Career
Brian got his first pet snake when he was a 15-year-old kid and fell in love with the snake elegance so quickly that his collection reached 250 in no time.
When he was 20 years old, Barcyzk decided to drop out of college and pursue snakes and reptiles breeding full-time.
In an exclusive interview with Jobbie Crew, he stated how rare reptile breeding was back in the 1980s.
"In the late 1980's I started working with reptiles full-time. It was a weird niche at the time. Typically, people who looked like me, the tattoo & ponytail stereotypes, were the only ones who owned snakes. At the time, Tropical Fish Pond (13 Mile Road and Woodward, Warren) was the only store in the Detroit area that carried reptiles. Now all the stores do. And 4-6 million households in the US own snakes."
Fast forward to now, he has more than 10,000 species of reptiles in his reptarium. Previously, he had over 30,000 species, but he decided to minimize the numbers to give good care to every one of them.
Brian holding a python with renowned music producer Marshmellow (Source: Business Insider)
The people willing to visit his reptarium situated in Detroit are supposed to buy the ticket, which costs them $10 per person, and in exchange, they get a chance to view most exotic collections of reptiles.
He firmly believes that timing played an integral part in his success, and his secret success formula has always been consistency, content, and collaboration. Brian has also launched various merch over time which focuses on promoting awareness about reptiles and snakes.
Brian has a YouTube channel with more than three million subscribers where he uploads his interactions with his pets and various tours of the reptiles nest of his zoo.
As of 2021, Barczyk has a net worth of more than $2 million. The snake fanatic in his 50s is also leading a family life that is as exotic as his reptarium.
Brian Barcyzk's Family Life
Brian resides in Southeast Michigan and shares his love for reptiles through YouTube along with his family members. He has been a married man for nearly three decades and shares a beautiful family of four with his wife, Lori Barczyk.
Even after years of marriage, the duo shares the same chemistry, and Brian never fails to surprise his wife, like the time he gifted her a car in 2019.
His son Noah also shares similar passions and has a definite love of snake and reptile elegance. Noah even has a verified YouTube channel of his own with more than 200k subscribers.
Like his father, he also posts different encounters with snakes and other reptiles, a perfect father-son duo!
Brian's daughter, Jade, got married in 2017, and he shared a beautiful video where he explained how he felt regarding his baby girl getting married.
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A Short Bio
Brian Barczyk was born on September 6, 1969, in Detroit, Michigan, and continues living there. He belongs to the Polish ethnicity raised in Warren, Michigan, and attended Center Line High School.
He found his love for snakes when he was visiting Belle Isle Zoo, and since then, he has become the biggest reptile influencer in the world at present.


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More new 'Star Wars' scenes: How much is too much?
John Boyega gets a hand -- in a scene we've seen too many times?
Image: Lucasfilm
By Chris Taylor 2015-11-17 19:12:06 UTC
As of Tuesday, the first public screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens aren't so far, far away — they're a mere month into the future. On the evening of December 17, audiences will finally get to see inside this particular J.J. Abrams mystery box, the contents of which are about as locked up as they have been for any major movie in history.
Trouble is, that mystery box isn't shut quite as tight as Abrams might have liked.
The director explicitly stated that the third trailer, the one released during Monday Night Football on October 19, would be the film's last. But since then, we've seen this significantly different Japanese trailer, a 30-second TV spot with new scenes, and a 60-second TV spot (which would technically count as a trailer if it were one second longer) that was unveiled during a Shonda Rhimes-produced block of ABC programming that attempted to cash in on Star Wars fever.
Also cashing in were this Verizon ad, shot on the set of the movie, and this Duracell ad, which fans obsessively deconstructed for clues.
See also: The only 'Star Wars' trailer analysis you need
To this asteroid field of hype we must add another TV spot, below:
And not one but two versions of a promo spot on Disney's kids channel, Disney XD. Here's the U.S. version:
Now notice the subtle differences in the UK version — it's not just a different presenter:
Notice also the poorer quality on those videos, both of which were shot by fans from TV screens. They're not quite as bad as the "potato phone" videos of movie trailers, but they're getting there.
Which is a shame, because Lucasfilm understands the inevitability of social media sharing around new Star Wars content. The company posted high-definition versions of all three official trailers, and even a behind-the-scenes video released at Comic-Con this summer, in an extremely timely fashion. The minute any audience saw them, we were all able to see them in the highest quality possible.
Disney and ABC evidently don't see things the same way. It took hours to release the ABC 60-second spot, by which time dozens of poor-quality versions had proliferated across YouTube. A similar delay happened with the TV spot above, and the Disney XD promos still haven't been officially released. Which is odd, considering that they're, you know, promos.
Beyond the quality question lies the quantity question. Is there any value to continually releasing tiny snippets of new footage? A number of fans are starting to get irked by the trend:
Dear @Disney, please reign in your #StarWars licensing and trailer people. Too much of a good thing is still too much.
— Hal Halpin (@HalHalpin) November 14, 2015
Disney should quit releasing trailer after trailer w/ new Star Wars: TFA footage. Interest is already high. Quit revealing too much.
— Carl Hancock (@carlhancock) November 13, 2015
Not going to watch that Star Wars "tv slot" trailer. In fact I'm not watching any more now until the movie, feel like I'm seeing too much
— Dan Walsh (@travors) November 13, 2015
How much is too much when it comes to Star Wars trailers? Are you feeling spoiled yet? Let us know in the comments below.
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