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Dear Federal Court of Australia,
This is a request for documents.
You are welcome to provide access to the requested documents via an administrative release. Otherwise, this is a request for documents under the FOI Act.
According to an article in the Australian (Federal Court boss warned on job rule sidestep), appointments to the National Judicial Registrar positions (of which, according to the article, there were eight) in the Federal Court were proper because "the recruitment processes which resulted in the appointment of eight registrars because there had been 'a role review process that had resulted in certain positions being found suitable for either a Legal 2 or (SES1) position, depending on the relative complexity and workload.'"
According to the Australian Public Service Classification Guide (page 30):
An agency with new or revised broadbanding proposals are (sic) required under the bargaining framework for APS enterprise agreements to consult with the Australian Public Service Commission (the Commission) to ensure that the proposals:
i) meet the APS Values and Employment Principles - relating to merit, community access to employment opportunities and leadership
ii) meet the APS legislative requirements - such as the Classification Rules
iii) are consistent with the bargaining framework for APS enterprise agreements. This includes that salary advancement for individuals within classifications and broadbands is subject to at least satisfactory performance.
I would like access to the following documents:
a) the consultations had between staff in the Federal Court and the APSC, in relation to new or revised broadbanding proposals for the National Judicial Registrar positions;
b) the APS role and classification evaluation records for the Legal 2 National Judicial Registrar positions;
c) the SES role and classification evaluation records for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar positions;
d) the vacancy notifications for the National Judicial Registrar positions published in the Public Service Gazette which each of the following National Judicial Registrars (according to the website of the Federal Court) was engaged or promoted to fill - Phillip Allaway, Matthew Benter, Rupert Burns, Catherine Forbes, Claire Gitsham, Susan O'Connor and Katie Stride; and
e) any documents on how APS personnel files are to be maintained (presumably by human resources).
Documents may be provided in digital format by return email.
Link to this Report
External FOI, Federal Court of Australia February 28, 2022
2022 02 28 Acknowledgement Marsten.pdf
Dear L Marsten
Please find attached correspondence from the Federal Court of Australia.
FOI Officer
External FOI, Federal Court of Australia March 10, 2022
2022 03 10 Extension to FOI Request Marsten.pdf
External FOI, Federal Court of Australia April 14, 2022
2022 04 14 FOI Decision L Marsten.pdf
Gazette Notice National Appeals Registrar.pdf
Gazette Notice National Judicial Registrar Native Title.pdf
AFDA Express V2 Personnel Management.pdf
L Marsten April 20, 2022
Dear Ms Hammerton Cole,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews. I am writing to request an internal review of Federal Court of Australia's handling of my FOI request 'Role and classification evaluations'.
Your decision is unsatisfactory.
I requested the following documents under the FOI Act:
a) The consultations had between staff in the APSC, in relation to new or revised broadbanding proposals for the National Judicial Registrar positions;
d) The vacancy notifications for the National Judicial Registrar positions published in the Public Service Gazette which each of the following National Judicial Registrars … was engaged or promoted to fill – Phillip Allaway, Rupert Burns, Catherine Forbes, Claire Gitsham, Susan O'Connor and Katie Stride; and
Your reasons for decision do not adequately address the request made.
You claim there are no documents between staff in the APSC in relation to new or revised broadbanding proposals for the National Judicial Registrar positions. I am prepared to accept that such documents do not exist.
You claim that there are no APS role and classification evaluation records for the Legal 2 National Judicial Registrar positions. I am not prepared to accept this.
In an article published on 9 February 2022 in the Australian, Acting Assistant Commissioner Kate McMullan of the Australian Public Service Commission concluded, in respect of the National Judicial Registrar positions in the Federal Court, that "a role review process … had resulted in certain positions being found suitable for either a Legal 2 or (SES1) position, depending on the relative complexity and workload." If a role review was conducted, there must be evidence of the role review, including records about the role and the complexity of the duties associated with the "Legal 2" role. How else could Ms McMullan have drawn such a conclusion?
Under the Archives Act 1983, a person must not engage in conduct that results in:
the destruction or other disposal of a Commonwealth record; or
the transfer of the custody or ownership of a Commonwealth record; or
damage to or alteration of a Commonwealth record.
Doing so is an offence (s 24(1A)), unless permitted by the Archives Act (s 24(2)).
The Administrative Functions Disposal Authority that you have provided makes it clear that "details of assigned duties" in relation to each employee must be "destroy[ed] 75 years after date of birth of employee or 7 years after last action, whichever is the later". Are you suggesting that the records have been handled in a way that constitutes an offence? There must be some record of the roles of these "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrars. There must also be a record of the classification given to the "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrar role as Ms McMullan concluded that the National Judicial Registrar role was "suitable for either a Legal 2 or (SES1) position, depending on the relative complexity and workload."
You claim that there are no APS role and classification evaluation records for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar positions. I am not prepared to accept this.
In an article published on 9 February 2022 in the Australian, Acting Assistant Commissioner Kate McMullan of the Australian Public Service Commission concluded, in respect of the National Judicial Registrar positions in the Federal Court, that "a role review process … had resulted in certain positions being found suitable for either a Legal 2 or (SES1) position, depending on the relative complexity and workload." If a role review was conducted, there must be evidence of the role review, including records about the role and the complexity of the duties associated with the "SES1" role. How else could Ms McMullan have drawn such a conclusion?
The Administrative Functions Disposal Authority that you have provided makes it clear that "details of assigned duties" in relation to each employee must be "destroy[ed] 75 years after date of birth of employee or 7 years after last action, whichever is the later". Are you suggesting that the records have been handled in a way that constitutes an offence? There must be some record of the roles of these "SES1" National Judicial Registrars. There must also be a record of the classification given to the "SES1" National Judicial Registrar role as Ms McMullan concluded that the National Judicial Registrar role was "suitable for either a Legal 2 or (SES1) position, depending on the relative complexity and workload."
You claim that a role record for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar role could not be located. You claim that "extensive searches were undertaken by staff of the Court to identify any documents falling within the scope of [my] request." You refused access to that document under s 24A of the FOI Act. Had the staff of the Court conducted "extensive searches", they would have located the position description for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar role on the Federal Court's FOI disclosure log (see PA2925-06/8 at www.fedcourt.gov.au/disclosurelog). On pages 35-40 of the document associated with PA2925-06/8, there is a position description for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar role. It differs substantially from the position description for the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar – Native Title role (see pages 23-28) and the SES Band 1 National Appeals Registrar role (see pages 17-22). The position description contains a record of the National Judicial Registrar role and can thus be reasonably described as a role record.
I do not have access to the records of the Federal Court and even I know that the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar role record exists. Plainly the document exists. Your refusal decision is unacceptable.
You also claimed that a role record for the "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrar role could not be located. You claimed that "extensive searches were undertaken by staff of the Court to identify any documents falling within the scope of [my] request." You refused access to that document. Your assurances that "extensive searches" were conducted are greeted with skepticism because plainly those extensive searches were not, in fact, extensive. Please provide the role record (i.e. the document that contains a record of the role of a National Judicial Registrar) for the "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrars.
Part d
You have provided access to the vacancy notifications for the National Judicial Registrar – Native Title vacancy and the National Appeals Registrar vacancy, which you claim has since been designated National Judicial Registrar - Appeals.
Thank you for providing those vacancy notifications. Catriona Stride was promoted to fill the National Judicial Registrar – Native Title vacancy (see promotion notification NN 10740043 at pages 225 and 226 of Public Service Gazette No PS49 of 2018, which was published on 6 December 2018). It appears that Catherine Forbes was promoted to fill the National Appeals Registrar vacancy (see promotion notice NN10726743 at pages 207 and 208 of Public Service Gazette No PS 22 of 2018, which was published on 31 May 2018).
I requested access to the National Judicial Registrar positions published in the Public Service Gazette which each of the following National Judicial Registrars … was engaged or promoted to fill – Phillip Allaway, Rupert Burns, Catherine Forbes, Claire Gitsham, Susan O'Connor and Katie Stride.
Unless you are suggesting that Phillip Allaway, Rupert Burns, Claire Gitsham and Susan O'Connor applied for the National Judicial Registrar – Native Title vacancy and the National Appeals Registrar vacancy, then you have not addressed my request. I note that from:
1 July 2018 – 30 June 2019; and
1 July 2019 – 12 June 2020,
only Catriona Stride, Catherine Forbes and Susan O'Connor were SES Band 1 officials (see PA2925-06/9 at www.fedcourt.gov.au/disclosurelog). It would follow that Phillip Allaway, Rupert Burns, Claire Gitsham were not engaged or promoted into the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar role and, thus, are "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrars. As part of the internal review of this request, you are requested to provide what I asked for – namely the "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrar vacancy notifications that Phillip Allaway, Rupert Burns and Claire Gitsham responded to in order to fill the "Legal 2" National Judicial Registrar positions in the Federal Court. You are also requested to provide the SES Band 1 National Judicial Registrar vacancy notification for the position that Susan O'Connor was engaged to fill.
You have failed to properly respond to part d of my request. Please see to it that the person conducting the internal review responds to my request competently.
The fact that there was an investigation into the recruitment processes conducted by the management of the Federal Court under the Public Interest Disclosure Act, and the fact that the investigation is now under review by the Commonwealth Ombudsman (see Spotlight shines back on watchdog, an article published on page 3 of the Australian on 29 March 2022) is very concerning. The fact that Justice Greenwood criticised the former CEO and the current CEO of the Federal Court in a national newspaper (see Top judge warned of registrar overhaul, an article published on page 7 of the Australian on 10 February 2022) for, effectively, lying to him (he used the euphemism of "obfuscating") lends support to the tentative conclusion that the Federal Court's management is engaged in corrupt employment practices.
Finally, it seems to me that Ms Hammerton Cole has not made a genuine attempt to engage with the FOI request that I made. Aside from failing to provide documents that do, in fact, exist in the Federal Court's records, Ms Hammerton Cole, cynically in my opinion, extended the time for consideration of my request by relying on s 27A of the FOI Act.
In her letter of decision, the registrar claims that the 2 vacancy notification that she provided access to had the name and contact number of a Federal Court official on them. She claimed that she was satisfied that "personal information" was included on the documents. She noted that "the documents containing that personal information were, at some stage, available from publicly accessible sources." Nevertheless, Ms Hammerton Cole "considered it appropriate to undertake a consultation in accordance with subsection 27A(1) of the FOI Act on the basis that a person might reasonably wish to object to the release of their personal information." Ms Hammerton Cole's approach to the application of s 27A is cynical because the mere fact that a person's name and telephone number appear on a document does not mean a person might reasonably wish to object to the release of the document that contains that personal information.
The documents that Ms Hammerton Cole provided access to were and are available for all members of the Australian community to access in the Public Service Gazette, which is online (see webarchive.nla.gov.au/tep/75984). The names and telephone numbers of public officials are published in those documents. Anybody can view those details. As Justice Jagot made clear in Dreyfus and Attorney-General (Commonwealth of Australia) (Freedom of information) [2015] AATA 995 [42]–[49], there must be some rational basis which the agency can discern, based on the face of the document or from anything else actually known to the decision-maker, indicating that disclosure of the document would, or could be expected to, unreasonably affect the person adversely in relation to his or her personal information. The mere appearance of a person's name in the document, in the absence of anything more, may not be sufficient for it to be apparent that a person might reasonably wish to make an exemption contention (see paragraph 3.77 of the FOI Guidelines). My view is that Ms Hammerton Cole's reliance on s 27A was, in the light of the law and the facts, unwarranted and was just a cynical time grab. Her credibility as a dispassionate and objective decision maker has been diminished in my opinion.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/r...
Acknowledgement letter L Martsen.pdf
Dear L Martsen
External FOI, Federal Court of Australia May 20, 2022
L Marsten 20 May 2022 Internal Review.pdf
L Marsten Gazette Notice Judicial Registrar.pdf
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M/S Vijayawada Bottling Co. Ltd. Vs. Collector of Central Excise, Guntur [1997] INSC 698 (2 September 1997)
S. C. AGRAWAL, M. JAGANNADHA RAO
S.C AGRAWAL, J.
M/s. Vijayawada Bottling Co. Ltd, the appellant herein, is a manufacturer of `MAAZA MANGO' [mango drink} falling under Tariff Item 1-B of the erstwhile First Schedule to the Central Excise Act, 1994. The appellant filed for approval a price list no. 17/1984-85 dated August 6, 1984 in respect of the said product wherein the price was shown as Rs.32/- per crate of 24 bottles. In the said price list there was a note to the effect that the appellant was realising Rs. 2.50 per crate towards rental and Rs.3.00 per crate towards service charges and the said amount were not included in the price.
The Assistant Collector of Central Excise, Vijayawada, issued notice dated August 17, 1984 requiring the appellant to show cause why the said amount of rental and service charges should not be included in the price. The appellant submitted a reply to the said show cause notice. By order dated November 30, 1984, the Assistant Collector of Central Excise while according approval to the assessable value as shown in the price list included in the said amount of rental and service charge in the price. The Collector of Central Excise (Appeals) by his order dated April 26, 1986 dismissed the appeal of the appellant and affirmed the order passed by the Assistant Collector. The appeal of the appellant before the Customs Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal was first heard by a bench of two learned Members of the Tribunal [Shri V.P. Gulati and Miss S.V.
Maruthi]. In view of the decision of this Court in Collector of Central Excise vs. Indian Oxygen Limited 1988 (4) SCC 139, both the learned Members held that rental charges were includable in the assessable value. There was, however, difference of opinion among the learned Members on the question whether service charges are includable in the assessable value. The Judicial Member [Miss S.V. Maruthi], relying upon the order of the Tribunal in Collector of Central Excise vs. Century Spg. and Mfg. Co. Ltd. 1988(37) ELT 277 held that the service charges that were claimed related to unloading sorting out the branded bottles.
separating the broken bottles before the bottles are sent to automatic bottle washing plant and that these activities do nor relate to the manufacture of aerated waters which are the subject matter of the Excise duty and that in view of Section 4(4)(d) of the Central Excise Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as `The Act'), the entire cost relating to durable and returnable containers should be excluded which include these miscellaneous service charges. The Technical Member [Shri V.P. Gulati] was, however, of the view that service charges have to be included in the price for the purpose of arriving at the assessable value. He held that the prepuratory operations to ensure that the bottles are fit for bottling have to be considered a part of manufacturing process and the cost of the same has to be reckoned towards the manufacture of the appellant's product.
In view of the difference of opinion among the two learned Members, the matter was referred to the third Member of the Tribunal on the following point of difference:
"Whether in the Facts and circumstances of the case, the service charges do not relate to the manufacture of aerated water as claimed by the appellant, and are, therefore, to be excluded for arriving at the assessable value as held Member (Judicial) or these relate to the manufacture of aerated water and are, therefore, to be included for arriving at the assessable value as held by Member (Technical)" The third learned Member of the Tribunal [Sri P.C.
Jain] agreed with the view of the Technical Member and held that the service charges collected by the appellant in respect of the activities undertaken by them related to the manufacture of the excisable goods in question. In view of the majority opinion the Tribunal has held that the service charges, namely, for sorting out the printed bottles separating the broken bottles before they are sent to automatic bottle washing plant relate to manufacture of aerated water and are includable in the assessable value of aerated water. The appeal of the appellant as regards service charges was, therefore, dismissed, but the appeal was allowed in respect of the rental charges and the matter was remitted to the Assistant Collector to verify the actual rental charges and re-determine the assessable value of aerated water for deducting the same from the price of the aerated water. Feeling aggrieved by the decision of the Tribunal, relating to inclusion of service charges in the price, the appellant has filed this appeal.
Section 4 of the Act makes provision for valuation of excisable goods for the purpose of charging of excise duty in case where under the Act duty of excise is chargeable on any excisable goods with reference to value. For the purpose of Section 4, the expression "value" is defined in clause (d) of Section 4(4). The relevant part of the said definition is produced as under:
"(4)(d) "value" in relation to any excisable goods,- [i] where the goods are delivered at the time of removal in a packed condition, includes the cost of such packing except the cost of the packing which is of a durable nature and is returnable by the buyer to the assessee.
Explanation. - In this sub-clause "packing" means the wrapper, container, bobbin, pirn, spool, reel or warp beam of any other thing in which or on which the excisable goods are wrapped, contained or wound;" In the case of Collector of Central Excise vs. Century Spg. and Mfg. Co. Ltd. [supra], the assessee was manufacturer of liquid Chlorine which was supplied to the customers in Tonners and Cylinders made of steel, which were accepted as a durable and returnable containers. The assessee claimed deduction of Rs.100/- in the case of Tonners (800 to 1,000 Kgs, capacity) and Rs. 150/- in the case of cylinders (20 to 100 Kgs. capacity) towards cost of packing on account of maintenance of Cylinders/Tonners, service charges etc. The Tribunal found that the department accepts that the containers were durable and returnable and that their cost is not includible in the assessable value of chlorine as per Section 4(4)(d)(i). The Tribunal, therefore, hold that the cost has to be the full cost of packing which should take in not only the initial purchase price of the container but also the further expenses on its maintenance and repairs. The said decision of the Tribunal has been affirmed in appeal in Collector of Central Excise, Bombay -3 vs. M/s Century Spg and Mfg Co. Ltd. (Civil Appeal No. 4207 of 1988), decided on July 15, 1997.
In the present case, as recorded by the Tribunal, the fact that the bottles are returnable and durable are not disputed. Before the Tribunal it was pointed out that the service charges pertain to the following activities:
"After unloading of the empty bottles at a place about 100 yards outside the factory, the bottles are sorted brandwise, (sometimes the bottles get mixed with bottles of other manufacturers which are to be separated). Thereafter, the bottles are examined for any defects which are also separated.
Cleaning of the bottles is done chemically. There are then loaded in the trolleys, brought to the factory and placed in conveyors to automatic bottle washing plant from where they come out after washing.
Bottles are examined again in strong light to avoid contamination." The process referred to above relates to preparing the bottles that were used earlier to be reused for the purpose of bottling of the aerated water produced by the appellant.
Since the aerated water has to be supplied in packed bottles only, the activities for which the appellant was claiming service charges related to the process of packing after the manufacture of aerated water. We find it difficult to appreciate how these activities can be treated as a part of the manufacturing process of aerated water. Since there is no dispute that the bottles are durable and returnable containers, the activities referred to above undertaken by the appellant to ensure that the empty bottles which have been received back are available for reuse for bottling of aerated water, have to treated as part of the process of packing and not as part of the manufacturing process of aerated water. The position is not very different from that in the case of Century Spg. & Mfg. Ltd. (supra) where the durable and returnable containers were used again for supply of gas and it was held that charges for maintenance and repairs of such containers were not includible in the assessable value of the gas. We are, therefore, unable to uphold the view of the majority in the Tribunal that the service charges claimed by the appellant have to be included in the assessable value.
In the result, the appeals are allowed, the impugned judgment of Tribunal holding that service charges @ Rs.3.00 per rate claimed by the appellant are to be included in the assessable value is set aside. Since the matters have already been remitted to the Assistant Collector of Excise for the purpose of verifying the actual rental charges of the bottles and re-determine the assessable value of the aerated water, it is directed that the Assistant Collector of Excise shall also verify the actual service charges and re-determine the assessable value of the aerated water after such verification. The appellant would furnish the necessary material in order to enable the Assistant Collector to ascertain the actual service charges. No order as to costs.


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  def sort_events
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      a.start_time <=> b.start_time
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  end

  def module_load
    events.lock ||= Mutex.new
    events.db = []
  end

  def module_start
    events.thread = Thread.new do

      loop do
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        spam "In timer thread"
        events.lock.synchronize do
          time = Time.now
          spam "Events since #{time}: #{events.db}"

          while events.db.count > 0 and events.db.first.start_time <= time
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            debug "Got event #{info}"
            schedule_hook event.hook, event
            if event.recurrs
              event.start_time += event.frequency while event.start_time <= time
              events.db << event
            end

            events.db = sort_events
          end

        end
      end

    end
  end

  def module_unload
    events.thread.kill if events.thread
  end

end

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The Adams Lake Indian Band (Shuswap language: Sexqeltqin)  is a member of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation.  It was created when the government of the Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.  The Adams Lake Indian Band is a member band of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, which represents Secwepemc people in the Thompson and Shuswap districts of southern Central Interior region.  Four Secwepemc governments farther north in the Cariboo belong to the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council. Chief Atahm School houses an immersion program important to keeping the Secwepemc language alive, and is located on an Adams Lake Indian Band Reserve.

Reserves
Adam's Lake Band (Sexqeltqin) has jurisdiction over the following reserves:
 Hustalen 1
 Squaam 2
 Toops 3
 Sahhaltkum 4
 Stequmwhulpa 5
 Switsemalph 6
 Switsemalph 7

See also
Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
Northern Shuswap Tribal Council

References

External links
Shuswap Nation website
Chief Atahm School

Shuswap Country
Secwepemc governments

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THE ARTFUL DILETTANTE
Keeper of the Flame of the Enlightenment
The Agora
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Myography
Liberty Hall of Fame
Size Matters is a compendium of the larger and more established organizations and think-tanks working overtime to educate the public on the dangers posed by the biggest threat to our liberty and prosperity–the United States Government. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
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Center for Small Government
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The Foundation for Economic Education, founded in 1946, is the leader in education, publishing, and the production of ideas related to the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society.
For young minds interested in market economics and its foundations in the broader philosophy of individual liberty, FEE is the best source for inspiring content, programs and community. FEE is not an academic or political organization; instead our focus is making the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society widely accessible, easily understood and energizing to young minds.
FEE's mission is inspire, educate, and connect young adults with the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society. FEE does this by delivering content that is substantive and thoughtful in forms most convenient to our customers, including in-person seminars and lectures, web-delivered content, printed material in book and magazine form, and networking opportunities.
At FEE, young people—and educators who work with them—will find an exciting and optimistic exposure to the classical liberal tradition in free-market economics as well as opportunities to connect with other young people and free-market organizations around the world. Read Israel Kirzner's essay on FEE's approach to understanding life and our mission here.
FEE envisions a world where the ideas of liberty are familiar and credible to the rising generation.
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the oldest free-market organization in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy. During its long and illustrious history, FEE has published or hosted lectures by some of the finest minds of the modern age, including Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Vernon Smith, Israel Kirzner, Walter Williams, George Stigler, Frank Chodorov, John Chamberlain, F.A. "Baldy" Harper, William F. Buckley Jr., among many others. You can learn more about the history of FEE through this wonderful collection of remarks by Henry Hazlitt.
Through our website, our magazine The Freeman, and our summer seminars and a constant stream of online resources and activities, FEE is constantly focused on providing high school and college students with the inspiration, education, and networking they need to become effective advocates for liberty and the free-market system. We hope you will explore our website in depth and find what you need. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us at info@fee.org.
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ARI fosters a growing awareness, understanding and acceptance of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, in order to create a culture whose guiding principles are reason, rational self-interest, individualism and laissez-faire capitalism — a culture in which individuals are free to pursue their own happiness.
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To advance Objectivism, ARI focuses on areas that have a long-term multiplying impact on the direction of our culture — notably, education and policy debates.
The education system, from grade school to academia, conveys the basic ideas through which people try to make sense of their lives and the world. Engage students, educators, scholars — and you can achieve large scale and enduring influence.
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The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition.
For over 30 years the Mises Institute has provided both scholars and laymen with resources to broaden their understanding of the economic school of thought known as Austrian economics. This school is most closely associated with our namesake, economist Ludwig von Mises.
We are the worldwide epicenter of the Austrian movement.
Through their research in the fields of economics, history, philosophy, and political theory, Mises's students F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, and others carried the Austrian school into the late twentieth century. Today, Mises Institute scholars and researchers continue the important work of the Austrian school.
Austrian economics is a method of economic analysis, and is non-ideological. Nonetheless, the Austrian school has long been associated with libertarian and classical-liberal thought—promoting private property and freedom, while opposing war and aggression of all kinds. The Mises Institute continues to support research and education in this radical pro-freedom tradition of historians, philosophers, economists, and theorists such asJean-Baptiste Say, Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, William Graham Sumner, Albert Jay Nock, Mises, Hayek, Hazlitt, Rothbard, and others.
The National Debt Awareness Center
Using only U.S. Government statistics, the site is constantly updated with ever more eye-popping data. A wealth of information, albeit of questionable veracity, for lovers of liberty who also love to crunch the numbers.
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In 1982, President Reagan directed the Grace Commission to "work like tireless bloodhounds to root out government inefficiency and waste of tax dollars." For two years, 161 corporate executives and community leaders led an army of 2,000 volunteers on a waste hunt through the federal government. The search was funded entirely by voluntary contributions of $76 million from the private sector; it cost taxpayers nothing. The Grace Commission made 2,478 recommendations, which would save $424.4 billion over three years, an average of $141.5 billion a year − all without eliminating essential services.
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Over 25 years ago, the UNESCO considered Aleppo City as one of the most important Islamic cities and kept it in the humane heritage record, because the walled city of Aleppo is the largest among the Islamic cities in history, it is 418 Hectares.
About 3 years ago, the Islamic Convention Organization and the Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture discussed the idea of celebrating an annual festival in one of the Islamic cities to indicate the civilized aspect and the cultural influence of that city. The first festival was decided to be held in Mecca in 2005, and the festival of 2006 was decided to be in Aleppo as the conference that was held in Algeria in 2004 has stated.
Aleppo is more than 10.000 years old that is still beating with the heart of life. It is the only Islamic city in the world that carries an architectural heritage expressing every single period of The Islamic Civilization starting with al Sho'aybye Mosque that was built in the 7th century AD, through the Umayyad, Abbasid, Zingid, Ayyubid and Ottoman ending with our present day.
Aleppo retains ruins and structures that cover all periods, varying in their functions and purposes to support everyday activities in every phase; most of them belong to Islamic Rulers and Sultans. The citadel of Aleppo was transformed into a fortress in the 13th century AD under Saladin's sun, Ghazi, who used it to defeat the Mongol invasions. One can distinguish the mosques in the old city and the new city with their magnificent way of built, and the art of mosaics that we find on the walls and the wooden ceilings. The Umayyad (the Great) Mosque is the example for the superior architecture levels Islam have accomplished in Aleppo structures through time.
The city also has the characterized by its strategic location on the crossroads between the 3 continents, so it has become an imperative passage for trading caravans along the history. That has been accompanied with improving the entertainment facilities and public utilities such as khans, restaurants, public baths, markets and industry. The Khans and Suqs that we find in Aleppo are Islamic features which we can find in all other Islamic cities. They were erected by the 16th century AD to provide the traders and the caravans the substantial materials they needed for the trade.
Aleppo is distinguished by its rich intellectual heritage. The royal court of Seif al-Dawlah is the best example to show the greatness of Aleppo heritage of literature, intellectual and scientific heritage, it gathered the greatest poets and scientists along the history "al Moutanabi - al Farabi - al Asfahani - al Khawarzmi - etc...". During "al-Zaher al Ayyubid" rule, Aleppo was considered the pearl of Islamic cities concerning trade, economics and architecture fields; the glorious heritage that has been passed down since the 3rd millennium BC. The Islam has brought much to science and literature, therefore, in every Islamic city there has to be several schools to teach Holy Qur'an and Arabic literature. Aleppo still holds these valuable schools inside its antique walls.
By adding that to the cultural heritage of Aleppo, we can get the reason behind choosing this city to represent Islamic civilization for 2006 according to its historical and cultural importance.
Opening the festival activities:
The festival started with the opening of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, and declaring Aleppo as "The Capital of Islamic Culture for 2006". The inauguration of the repairing works of the Mosque was a historic day for the city; it was dedicated by Mr. President Bashar al Assad and held the Friday prayer.
The festival on Saturday was opened by performing the operette of "Aleppo in History Pages". The operate showed the history of the city since the 10th century BC till our present day through traditional folklore dance and singing performance.
A few anthems were then presented, and for the closure of the day, the great singer, Sabah Fakhri, performed a few of his best melodious songs.
The following week included various activities such as lectures and symposiums about literature, science, art and religion in Syria. The seminars aimed the correction of the idea that media is promoting about Islam and fixing the wrong image about Islam, that the world is receiving from the media.
During the festival along the year (2006), Aleppo witnessed a cultural revolution that has never happened; over 300 lectures and symposiums of various subjects many art performances were presented along the year to celebrate Aleppo, the Capital of Islamic Culture for 2006.


Pictured below is a wakeboard boat from Ski Nautique, the Sport Nautique with a wakeboard tower. We added SeaDek Non-Skid padded flooring and an upgraded stereo from Kicker Audio. The speakers are marine grade so they can withstand the outdoor weather here in Florida. A Kicker marine amp was also installed to add a fuller sound to the boat.
SeaDek has become a highly requested product to add to boats this year because of the durability and non-skid protection that it brings to marine vehicles. SeaDek comes in many different colors, patterns, and textures.
We at Next Level Inc. do free estimates and very fast turnarounds on installation. Customers can bring their boats, cars, and trucks to our shop for installation, or we can come out to your remote location (example: at the marina).
We also offer a lifetime installation warranty when products are purchased through our shop.
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We recently completed yet another SeaDek project and this time on a Super Air Nautique. We also powder coated the tower speakers, board racks, and windshield. Ultimate Window Tint tinted the windows on the boat to reduce glare for the driver when on the water.
Some upholster was also repair by the professionals at Next Level Inc. on the engine cover and other places that the owner of the boat had requested. We match colors to be as close to as possible to the rest of the boats upholster colors before installing.


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Джон Бенсон (; 1865—1947) — американский архитектор и художник-маринист.

Биография и творчество
Родился 8 февраля 1865 года в городе Сейлем, штат Массачусетс; брат художника Фрэнка Бенсона.

Прошел обучение в качестве архитектора в Академии Жулиана и в Школе изящных искусств в Париже. Вернувшись в США, в 1893 году женился на Sarah Bissell Whitman и они жили в Плейнфилде, штат Нью-Джерси, затем во Флашинге, Нью-Йорк.

Бенсон работал в нью-йоркской архитектурной фирме McKim, Mead & White. Затем вместе с Albert Leverett Brockway, его коллегой по обучению в Европе, они создали собственную компанию Benson and Brockway. В 1922 году, работая архитектором, Бенсон с женой путешествовали по Англии, где он арендовал студию и написал несколько картин. Он отослал их в нью-йоркскую галерею Kennedy Galleries, где они продались. Затем Джон отошел от архитектурной деятельности и полностью переключился на живопись. Вместе с женой они переехали в город Киттери, штат Мэн, где купили собственный дом на реке Piscataqua River, названный ими «Willowbank».

Умер 16 ноября 1947 года в городе Киттери, штат Мэн. Похоронен на родине — в городе Сейлем, штат Массачусетс, на кладбище Harmony Grove Cemetery.

Джон Бенсон создал более 500 полотен. Его картины можно увидеть во многих музеях США. в 1968 году в музее Пибоди в Сейлеме, состоялась ретроспективная выставка художника.

Галерея

Источники
 Nicholas J. Baker, John Prentiss Benson — American Marine Artist, 2008.
 Charles Penrose, John P. Benson. American Artist (1865-1947) An Affectionate Tribute, 1949.

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 Персональный сайт
 John Benson (1865-1947)

Архитекторы США
Художники США XIX века
Художники США XX века
Художники-маринисты США
Графики США


John Thune recently spoke candidly to The Weekly Standard about his plans.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the "Daschle slayer" who beat the Senate Democratic leader in 2004, is ramping up plans for a presidential run in 2012, associates say.
Thune gets a high-level endorsement, from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
From Thune's official biography: "John Thune grew up in Murdo, South Dakota. His interest in politics was sparked at a young age after making five of six free throws during a freshman basketball game. He was greeted by a spectator who said, 'I noticed you missed one.' That spectator happened to be well-known sports enthusiast and U.S. Representative Jim Abdnor. … Thune received his undergraduate degree at Biola University and his master's degree in Business Administration from the University of South Dakota. Upon completion of his master's degree in 1984, he married Kimberley Weems, a native of Doland, South Dakota.


*Coexistence of ferromagnetic and superconducting order rarely occurs because of the antagonistic nature of the two phenomena. The strong exchange coupling in ferromagnets tries to align electron spins in parallel, incompatible with antiferromagnetically aligned spins of a Cooper pair. This conflict can be resolved in the case of triplet superconductivity where electron pairs with parallel spins are not destroyed by the exchange field of ferromagnets .
Heterostructures with composition La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrRuO3/YBa2Cu3Ox (LSMO/SRO/YBCO) were fabricated on (110) NdGaO3, (001) LaAlO3 or (001) (LaAlO3)0.3(Sr2AlTaO6)0.7 substrates by pulsed laser ablation and then covered in-situ by Au films. Square mesa-structures with in-plane size L=10-50 μm were fabricated on NdGaO3 substrates .
The PNR experiment was conducted on the reflectometer NREX. A polarized neutron beam with wavelength 4.26 Å and 99.99% polarization falls on the sample under the grazing incidence angles θ1 = [0.15 – 1]. The divergence of the beam Δθ1 = 0.025° was set by two slits in front of the sample. The polarization of the reflected beam was analyzed by a polarization analyzer with 98% efficiency. An in-plane magnetic field was applied parallel to the one edge of the sample. Before the measurements, the sample was cooled down to T = 80K in H =5 kOe to align the magnetic domains in the direction parallel to the external field. Subsequently, the magnetic field was decreased to H = 30 Oe and reflectivity curves were measured.
Spin-polarized reflectivity curves taken at T = 80 K are shown in Fig. 1a. The NSF curves R++ and R— are characterized by total reflection from the substrate with critical wave vector transfer Qcrit = 0.15 nm-1 and Kiessig fringes. The difference between R++ and R— indicates the presence of a collinear component of the magnetization. The SF scattering, in turn, shows that an in-plane non-collinear component of the magnetization exists. The sharp peaks in the SF channels around Qcrit with intensity of about 10% originate from the waveguide-like structure formed by capping the system with the layer of gold. The parameters of this peak (width, height and area) are very sensitive to the magnetic state of the system . In particular, the magnetic field dependence of the peak area is shown in Fig. 1c. One can see that the intensity of SF scattering is rapidly decreased in the range of magnetic field H = [0-1] kOe and stays almost zero at magnetic fields up to H = 5kOe. The sensitivity of the waveguide SF peak is explained by significant enhancement of neutron density in the waveguide mode. According to our calculations , the neutron density in the vicinity of the magnetic layers is enhanced by a factor of 20-30 with respect to the intensity of the incoming beam (Fig. 1a), thus allowing the sensitivity of PNR in the determination of the in-plane non-collinear moment to be significantly increased.
Analysis of PNR and SQUID data allowed us to restore field evolution of the 3D vector profile of the magnetic sub-system (see insets in Fig. 1c). In small magnetic fields (order of tens of Oersteds) magnetic moment of LSMO layer 3.2μB/Mn lies in- plane along the easy axis, which made an angle of 45° with respect to the direction of external field. The magnetic moment of SRO 1.3 μB/Ru is inclined on angle 80° to the sample plane (left inset in Fig. 1c). The subsequent increase of the external magnetic field to H ~ 1kOe leads to a rotation of the LSMO magnetization vector towards the magnetic field, while the direction of the SRO magnetization remains the same (middle inset in Fig. 1c). The magnetic field of half a Tesla was enough to align moments of LSMO and SRO collinear (right inset in Fig. 1c). Thus, a combination of PNR and SQUID allowed us to experimentally prove that the non-collinear alignment of the LSMO and SRO magnetization vectors remains virtually unchanged in the range of applied magnetic fields H = [0÷5] kOe that enables generation of a triplet condensate.
To probe possible triplet superconducting correlations in the ferromagnetic layers, a mesa-structure with two superconducting electrodes was studied (Fig. 2). The second electrode was a Nb film deposited on top of the Au/LSMO/SRO/YBCO structure . A superconducting current was observed in all mesa-structures with LSMO/SRO total thickness dM = dLSMO + dSRO up to 53 nm (Fig.2b), which is much larger than the coherence length of both ferromagnets ξF ~ 5nm . The measurements also showed that a critical current exists even in the fields of several kOe. It would be surprising for a singlet superconducting current to exist at H fields up to 100 times stronger than the period of critical current oscillation (~10 Oe). As was directly shown by PNR and SQUID measurements, the presence of critical currents at such high magnetic fields is explained by strong non-collinear alignment of magnetic moments of LSMO and SRO layers.
We have directly probed non-collinear magnetism on metal-oxide heterostructures by means of SQUID magnetometry and PNR. The dependence of the observed superconducting current in the mesa-structures Nb/Au/LSMO/SRO/YBCO on thicknesses of LSMO and SRO was studied and compared with theoretical predictions. The Josephson effect observed in these structures is explained by the penetration of the long-range triplet component of the superconducting correlations into the magnetic layer. Further work is required to elucidate the magnetic structures at the interfaces and their influence on the propagation of supercurrents, as well as the possible role of d-wave pairing.
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MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A four-generation business, a Finnish chef and author, and a technology and business leader will be inducted this year to the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame .
The hall in Minot honors people of Scandinavian descent in North America who have achieved greatness in their field.
This year's honorees include the Tollefson's Retail Group furniture and flooring business, which was started by the son of Norwegian immigrants in 1925 and now has locations throughout the Upper Midwest.
Finnish-born chef Soile Anderson of Minnesota's Twin Cities has served U.S. presidents, the Dalai Lama and royalty.
Norwegian-American Nathan Myhrvold is co-founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures. He's an inventor, physicist, chef, photographer, author and former Microsoft officer.
This year's induction ceremony is Sept. 26 during the annual Norsk Hostfest Scandinavian heritage festival.


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