text: Born in The Hague, the Netherlands, Remy was bitten by the music bug in the summer of 1990. A dark murky club, lustrous lights, that thumping base, and a strange but curiously intoxicating fusion of high, medium, and low frequencies was all it took for Remy to make a sudden change of career, and a decision he has never regretted making since. He bought his own DJ set after that summer. Eventually he gained residency at all Silly Symphonies events in Holland. The Amsterdam based club RoXY soon recognized his talent and introduced Remy to a larger crowd every Saturday night. Remy has since been found at John Digweed's Bedrock nights in London as well as those famous Twilo nights in New York aside from playing all over the world. He never ceases to amaze his fans and crowds with his impeccable choice of records and flawless, tight mixing. Receiving an award from the Dutch Awards as Best DJ consecutively for 2001 and 2002, proves exactly that. "I like to play a variety of sounds from tech-house, to techno, To English progressive, to trance. For me, the most important aspect in a record as well as a DJ set is the flow of energy in the music. The real challenge is to play for a certain type of crowd, be it techno or progressive and have them enjoying another sound without realizing that style of music has changed." Since the summer of 90', Remy's passion for music has only intensified. Since then, he has launched a slew of record labels such as WONKA, 'Global Cuts' together with Belgian DJ/producer Sven van Hees, AREA CODE 070 (the phone area code of Remy's residence The Hague), and of course TASTE RECORDINGS. Similarly, he has released a number of singles that have received international recognition. To name a couple, 'Mess With Da Bull' was featured on Sasha & Digweed's 'Northern Exposure Expeditions' compilation, and 'Backstabber' (DJ Remy) can be found on the Renaissance-CD by Dave Seaman. Recent releases of Remy include 'Pumped Up' (DJ Remy) and 'Spotlight' (RR Workshop). He is currently working on the release of his first artist album.

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New Poundland store to open in Newtownabbey tomorrow
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Published: 09:50 Friday 15 November 2019
Poundland will open its new store in Newtownabbey tomorrow (Saturday, November 16) offering an even wider range of products.
The 11,000 square feet unit in the Abbey Centre is nearly three times larger than the nearby Poundland store it replaces.
It will have nearly twice as many staff as the previous store, employing more than 30 people and creating 16 new jobs in the region.
Part of the store – on the site of a former Primark shop – will be devoted to the full range of Poundland's popular PEP&CO brand of fashion for the whole family.
It will be one of the first Poundland stores in the UK to open with Poundland's expanded range of products at simple prices.
The new ranges – with items selling from 50p to £5 – allow Poundland to deliver even more choice and value to customers across a wide range of groceries, health and beauty and homeware products.
Shoppers will be welcomed to a big and bright store with wide aisles and new faster tills and self-service tills for extra convenience.
Austin Cooke, Poundland's retail director, said: "We're proud to be part of the community in Newtownabbey and we're delighted that our new bigger store will offer customers a wider range of products than before and even better value for money. It's great that we have created 16 new jobs.
"We think customers will love the new layout which has been designed to improve the shopping experience. The new ranges at simple prices bring even more choice in everyday products and customers have told us that they can't wait for us to start selling PEP&CO clothes."
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Gloves are off in South Africa
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THE advent of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party into the political scene of South Africa has made the political atmosphere a challenging and interesting one.
It was not only Malema, who launched his own party seven months ago. AgangSA was also launched by Mamphele Ramphele, former director at World Bank, who has proved to be a political novice despite her history as a former member of the Black Consciousness Movement formed by Steve Bantu Biko.
SA First was also launched by disgruntled ANC MK veterans who have cited lack of clarity within ANC.
Another party launched is Patriotic Alliance formed by robbers Gayton Mackenzie and his partner in crime Kenny Kunene.
These two robbers come as politicians after serving 15-year jail sentences for armed robbery.
Upon release, they became successful multi-millionaires.
The two have said they want to challenge DA in Cape Town because ANC has failed and in that process DA are doing as they wish.
There are more than 150 political parties in South Africa which are contesting elections come May 7 2014.
The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) with a total membership of 350 000 said it will in time launch a political party called United Front and Movement for Socialism which would be aimed at uniting working class and mobilising issues affecting workers.
The leader of this organisation, secretary general Irvine Jim said leaders of liberation movements have failed to consistently radicalise a democratic process.
NUMSA is still a Cosatu affiliate and have refused to support ANC in this election.
They have withdrawn their financial support of R800 000 to ANC.
Gauteng Province, Cape Town and Polokwane home town of Cde Julius Malema are the most contested provinces, which all parties want to win them.
With so many parties it's likely that there will be a coalition government in these provinces.
ANC is also likely to lose Gauteng province and a coalition might be on the cards.
Gauteng is proving to be anybody's ground despite Cde Malema having an upper hand in terms of attendance at rallies.
In his speech at the launch of the EFF manifesto, Cde Julius Sello Malema said nationalisation of land without compensation and 60 percent share equity shall be taken from major banks which include, FnB, ABSA and NEDBANK.
Just three kilometres away from the EFF rally, ANC youth league organised a festival which they invited top notch musicians, but to their chagrin people did not attend, it was pathetic.
Cde Malema arrived in an S500 Mercedes Benz escorted by Metro corps in a convoy.
The EFF manifesto launch was attended by more than 60 000 people of whom many were young adults.
People came clad in red berets and red T-shirts, their party regalia.
It was a sea of red ants.
The leader of the EFF, who was wearing an overall, spoke at length reminding his 'fighters' that 20 years after democracy, people do not have water, electricity and South Africa is burning because of poor service delivery.
Cde Malema called his 'fighters' and the rest of the country to stop voting ANC into power since this was no-longer the ANC of their fathers.
The firebrand leader attacked President Jacob Zuma saying he is corrupt and asked how one can build a cattle kraal for R1million.
The EFF manifesto drew much applause and support from many quarters because of its pro-poor, free education and its stance on the land issue and the economy which is not benefitting the majority.
The highly attended manifesto launch was like the star rallies which were being held by President Mugabe last year before the July 31 2013 elections.
The question, however, is: Is the support which Cde Malema receiving going to be translated into votes?
Despite corruption and fraud charges being levelled against him, Cde Malema has remained the darling of many South Africans especially the down trodden. Another charge of driving at high speed was dropped and another further charge was promulgated of road rage in his home town of Polokwane.
Meanwhile, the EFF and the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania better known as PAC have signed a memorandum of understanding, highlighting the need to have joint rallies and coalition if the need arises.
Cde Malema also extended his hand to his former political enemy, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkhata Freedom Party (IFP) emphasising the need to work together.
During his hey days at ANC, Cde Malema once insulted the Zulu Chief that he was a factory fault that's why he left ANC in 1975 to form his own party IFP.
He apologised to the old man and promised to work together to remove the ANC.
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Tetraphidaceae é uma família de musgos cuja classificação botânica permaneceu incerta por muito tempo. Hoje estes musgos são encaixados e reconhecidos como uma subclasse própria dos briópsidas.

Estas espécies de musgos se encontram presentes em todas as regiões nórdicas do globo, naquelas que formam o holártico.

Referências
 Jan-Peter Frahm: Biologie der Moose. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (editora), Heidelberg e Berlim, Alemanha (2001), ISBN 3-8274-0164-X .
 Jan-Peter Frahm, Wolfgang Frey, J. Döring: Moosflora. 4. edição, melhorada e aumentada (UTB für Wissenschaft, Band 1250). Ulm, Stuttgart, Alemanha (2004), ISBN 3-8001-2772-5 (Ulmer) & ISBN 3-8252-1250-5 (UTB) .

Ligações externas
 Bryophyte Flora of North America por Judith A. Harpel .

Briófitas
Famílias botânicas

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Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives
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Michael Lawrence | 2020 | ISBN: 1844578550 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The contributors seek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom-the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies-across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.
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In 2007 Drs. Brian Luckman and Menounos stumbled upon an important series of moraines at the terminus of Castle Creek Glacier, BC (Figure 1). I was due to start field work on the glacier in a few weeks and one of my PhD supervisors, Brian Menounos, asked me to determine if the series of ridges were annual push moraines.
Figure 1: A view towards the terminus of Castle Creek Glacier, taken in September 2008. The series of roughly parallel ridges of sediment to the left of the stream are a portion of the annual push moraines that have been formed as the glacier recedes.
Annual push moraines form in winter when a glacier advances a meter or more, bulldozing sediment and rock into a small ridge. If summer retreat of the glacier outpaces these minor winter advances, then a long series of push moraines may form. The distance between these moraines varies much like the pattern found in tree-rings; warm, dry conditions tend to increase the separation between the moraines and vice versa.
Figure 2: Castle Creek Glacier just begins to pull away from this small push moraine in August of 2007.
Using aerial photos to date the sequence of moraines, we determined annual retreat from 1959 to 2007 (Figure 3). Castle Creek Glacier retreated about 700 meters during this period, averaging about 14 meters per year (Figure 4). Recession reached a minimum of 3 meters per year in the late 1970s, and a maximum of over 40 meters per year in the early 1990s. These changes coincide with temperature variability recorded during the period 1959-2007.
Figure 3: An image from 2005 showing glacier positions mapped from aerial photographs (blue lines) and push moraines (yellow lines). The blue line labeled 'LIA' is the position of the Little Ice Age maximum extent, a position that glaciers in western Canada were at in about 1850.
Although glacier retreat is dominantly controlled by summer temperatures, winter precipitation also plays a role. Our work shows a delay of about a decade between winter precipitation (snowfall) and the response of the glacier terminus – this delay or reaction time varies for a given glacier and depends on physical aspects of the glacier such as its length, thickness, volume, or steepness.
Annual retreat of Castle Creek Glacier is similar to observed recession for other glaciers in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, and Alaska. A common climatic factor is the most likely explanation for synchronous behavior, and it appears that air temperature is that common factor.
Figure 4: Plots showing Castle Creek Glacier annual retreat (top) and cumulative retreat (bottom) updated through 2010.
Measurement of annual push moraines from high-resolution imagery provides an inexpensive method to record the magnitude of future glacier retreat (field surveys of glaciers are expensive and time consuming). Though such records are rare, they provide invaluable records of glacier change. We have identified other series of push moraines that front glaciers in North America using aerial photography and other high-resolution imagery available on GoogleEarth, and we encourage others to exploit this important proxy of glacier change. Since 2007, Castle Creek Glacier has continued to retreat and to form annual push moraines. We have updated our analysis through 2011 and will update our measurements in 2012 to extend the longest record of annual glacier retreat in North America.
Figure 5: Castle Creek Glacier at dusk. September 2010.


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WIT Life #334: Hikikomori shifting demographics
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Written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03), WIT Life is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei's newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
The plight of Japan's hikikomori (ひきこもり or voluntary shut-ins), has always been a topic that received a lot of buzz, but has primarily focused on young people affected by this phenomenon. However, according to a recent nationwide survey carried out by the Cabinet Office that was the first of its kind, recent trends indicate that it is actually older people who now comprise a larger percentage of Japan's hikikomori population (gender-wise, men still comprise the majority of hikikikomori at a rate of around 3:1).
This BBC article characterized hikikomori as "modern-day hermits," and describes how this condition is not only limited to Japan, but also seen in other Asian and European countries. In fact, the problem of loneliness and social isolation got so bad in the UK that it appointed its first designated minister for loneliness last year. Here in the States, loneliness has various deleterious effects, which have become Read More
WIT Life #333: King Kazu
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The sports portion of today's Japanese news showcased the celebration of Kazu Miura's 52nd birthday. Looking as dapper as ever in a fashionable white suit in front of a huge cake, he shared that every birthday he wore a different color suit (past years have included bright red, yellow and blue), but that he had run out of colors so had to return to white. Perhaps it is this enthusiasm and youthful spirit that enables him to keep pace on the soccer field with professional players decades his junior. Miura (a.k.a. "King Kazu") began his career in 1986, and he is considered to be Japan's first soccer superstar.
He was the subject of a NYT profile last year, in which he was described as the epitome of Read More
WIT Life #332: Japanese Tennis and Film News
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明けましておめでとうございます (Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu or Happy New Year)! A bit late, but this is my first post of 2019. Those who have been following the Australian Open tennis tournament know that Kei Nishikori unfortunately had to pull out of his semifinal match against Novak Djokovic due to a leg injury. This was actually his 18th career retirement from a match, a statistic that earned him some bashing, including from commentator John McEnroe.
Speaking of controversy, Japanese noodle manufacturer Nissin recently got into some trouble for its ad featuring Nishikori and his countrywoman Naomi Osaka for changing her skin and hair to be lighter and straighter. Osaka has blazed her way into the Australian Open final and will be playing Petra Kvitova, and who will win is anyone's guess. What is known is that the victor will claim the #1 rank, and if it's Naomi it will be the first time for a Japanese player. For the night owls (or early risers depending on how you think about it), the match will be shown live on ESPN at 3:30 am tomorrow morning. For people like myself who are not in this camp, the match will be replayed at 9 am. Ganbare Naomi!
Speaking of Japanese who are receiving acclaim, Mamoru Hosoda's animated film 未来のミライ (Mirai no Mirai or Mirai) and Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest 万引き家族 (Manbiki Kazoku or Shoplifters) just received Read More
WIT Life #331: Kanji of the Year
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As my last post mentioned we are in the midst of the "best of" season, and the latest is the anno uncement of the kanji of the year. The pick for 2018 is 災 (sai, or disaster), as in 自然災害 (shizen saigai or natural disaster) and 災い (wazawai or trouble/misfortune). As Japan is no stranger to natural disasters, this kanji had been chosen once before in 2004. That was the year of the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake, the deadliest earthquake to strike Japan since 1995's Great Hanshin earthquake (incidentally, the kanji of the year tradition began that year with the selection of 震 (shin or earthquake)). This year a big earthquake causing landslides hit Hokkaido, heavy rains caused floods and mudflows in Kyushu, and there were also major heat waves and typhoons throughout the country.
But it wasn't only natural disasters that led to 災. There was also an abundance of man-made disasters such as power harassment in the sports world, Finance Ministry bureaucrats tampering with official documents in a political scandal, and the rigging of entrance exam scores that discriminated against female applicants at medical universities.
In person-on-the-street interviews on this morning's news, interviewees reacted to the selection of 災. One young woman thought it made sense in light of all the horrible landslides and floods, but an older woman said she found it dark and would have preferred something brighter. Others offered alternatives such as Read More
WIT Life #330: Japan's 2018 Buzzwords
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It's hard to believe but 2019 is just around the corner, the time when Best of 2018 lists begin to emerge. From Japan, the nominees for this year's buzzwords have been compiled. The 30 candidates will be whittled down to the top 10 as well as an overall winner, to be announced on December 3 (you can vote for your favorite at the bottom of the link!).
Unsurprisingly, many relate to Prime Minister Abe's work-style reform initiatives (働き方改革 or hatara kikata kaikaku). I hadn't heard of short-time harassment (ジタハラ・ 時短ハラスメント or jitahara・jitan-harasumento), the pressure employers put on their workers to reduce overtime and maximize productivity, but I was familiar with the high-level professional system (⾼プロ・⾼度プロフェッショナル制度 or kōdo puro・kōdo purofesshonaru seido). This allows specialists like financial dealers or analysts with ¥10.75 million plus in annual income to be paid based on work performance, rather than hours worked. They won't receive overtime pay as a result of being exempt from typical regulations, something the opposition party said would lead to longer working hours. It managed to pass and will go into effect for large companies at the start of the next fiscal year.
In the sports category, I liked the selection of buzzword Naomi-esque (なおみ節 or Naomi-bushi). It refers to the gentle and polite way Japanese-Haitian tennis player Naomi Osaka speaks, in contrast to her on-court tenacity. As reported in this blog, she Read More
WIT Life #329: Japan-Related Films for Your Weekend
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Written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03), WIT Life is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei's Japanese news, and here she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
This week the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) hosted the premiere of the 2018 documentary 3100: Run and Become from director Sanjay Rawal. It showcases the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race which takes place in Queens every summer. This elite competition requires participants to run this unbelievable distance within 52 days, which means averaging at least 60 miles per day. Competitors come from all over the world, and some have run it as many as 14 times. Rawal also intersperses stories of other amazing distance challenges, such as a member of the Navaho Nation running 110 miles across the desert in memory of his father's struggles when young, the Gaolo-San Bushmen running in pursuit of their prey and as part of their lifestyle, and the Tendai-shu monks of Mt. Hiei in Japan who carry out a practice of walking to attain enlightenment.
Spiritual training via walking is called 回峰行 (kaihōgyō), and the monks on Mt. Hiei carry out a version that takes place over 1000 days during a seven-year retreat period, called 千日回峰行 (sennichi kaihōgyō). During this time, the monk must remove himself from all family ties and other worldly distractions. Since this tradition began in 1885, only 50 plus monks have finished this quest, most in their 30s and the oldest in his 60s. The film tells the story of the monk Gyoman-san who is midway through his journey, and examines his mental state as he attempts to accomplish this major feat. He describes a point where you no longer Read More
WIT Life #328: Making Japanese History at the U.S. Open
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Being an avid tennis fan, I was thrilled when my clients asked me if I wanted to join them at the U.S. Open women's semifinals last night. I was especially excited because not only would I get to see Serena during her "Don't call it a comeback" tour, but I would get to see Japanese rising tennis superstar Naomi Osaka play live for the first time. Naomi set a personal record by reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinal here, and she and Kei Nishikori together made history by becoming the first Japanese duo to reach the semifinals of the same Grand Slam tournament. The last time Japanese players advanced into the later rounds simultaneously was back in 1996, when Shuzo Matsuoka and Kimiko Date reached their respective quarterfinals at Wimbledon (Shuzo incidentally was Kei's coach in Japan when he was 12).
Coincidentally enough, Naomi Osaka (大坂なおみ) was born in the same city as her last name (大阪) to a Japanese mother and a Haitian father. When she was 3, they moved to the U.S. with her and her older sister Mari, a lso a tennis player, but for the sake of their tennis careers their father made the savvy decision that they would represent Japan. It's refreshing that despite not being fluent in Japanese and not being purely Japanese, she has a huge backing in Japan. At the match last night, a Haitian group was sitting behind us and enthusiastically calling out her name at regular intervals. We ended up chatting and one guy explained that Haitian fans want to claim her as their own, and that they get frustrated when she is described as only "Japanese" as opposed to "Haitian-Japanese."
She and opponent Sloane Stephens slugged it out with their amazingly powerful ground strokes, some rallies going as long as 18 points. In her post-match comments, when asked why she was able to continuously hold serve despite Sloane's 13 break chances, Naomi said, Read More
WIT Life #327: New York Asian Film Festival
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In addition to being in the middle of a major heat wave, we are in the midst of film festival season here in the city. Specifically I'm talking about the current New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), which is in its 17th year! This year I have the honor of interpreting for several actors and directors during the festival, and so far I've worked on the films Dynamite Graffiti and The Hungry Lion. For the former, both director Masanori Tominaga and star Tasuku Emoto were on hand, and you can access a Facebook recording of their Q&A here. For the latter, director Takaomi Ogata attended the screening and his Q&A can be found here.
This year's recipient of the festival's Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award was Masato Hara, who Read More
WIT Life #326: New York Japan CineFest 2018
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Last night I caught day 1 of the New York Japan CineFest held at Asia Society. 2018 marks the seventh anniversary of the event, and it seems to get better every year. The lineup featured six short films that ranged in length from eight to 28 minutes, and included two documentaries.
My favorite was the final film And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool from Makoto Nagahisa, which clo cked in at the longest 28 minutes but went by in a flash. It is based on a true story of four 15-year old girls from a small town in Saitama who released 400 goldfish into their high school pool in order to escape the boredom of their daily lives. Its zany tone and fast-paced story kept the audience captivated and laughing. Despite its humorous tone, it poignantly addresses the universal feelings experienced during high school and certainly brought back memories of that time in my life. Last year it received the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance (you can watch the film via this link), and it was Nagahisa's directorial debut.
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WIT Life #325: Shogun World
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Hope everyone is enjoying the Memorial Day weekend! I'm out in Colorado, heading into the tail end of a three-week State Department interpreting gig on the topic of disability access and inclusion. This was something I knew very little about before starting, and have come to understand more about the situation both here and in Japan. Our last week will be spent in Seattle, where I'm sure there's lots more to learn…
The HBO drama Westworld recently entered its second season, and while I a m not a regular viewer I tuned in as I had heard it would have a Japan focus. The show tells the story of life-like robots in a Wild West-themed amusement park, and the complications that arise when they become sentient. This time around the series is set during Japan's Edo Period in a place called Shogun World. Great pains were taken to ensure accuracy, even down to the Japanese that would have been spoken at the time. And it doesn't hurt that the lineup of Japanese actors includes standouts like Hiroyuki Sanada and Rinko Kikuchi, who play a ronin robot and lead geisha respectively.
For more about Shogun World, check out this Japan Times article.
WIT Life #324: Inland Sea
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This weekend I caught Kazuhiro Soda's Inland Sea (港町) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Art of the Real. The festival's opening film about John McEnroe whet my appetite for more documentaries, and I was looking forward to seeing the latest from Soda after enjoying his film Campaign at Japan Society several years back. Inland Sea is set near the hometown of his wife Kiyoko Kashiwagi, who is also the film's producer. They were both on hand to introduce the film and take part in a post- screening Q&A. In his introduction Soda shared that the film adheres to their Ten Commandments, which include tenets such as no research before shooting, not setting any themes or goals before editing, and paying for the production on their own (to the dismay of producer Kashiwagi).
Inland Sea takes place in the port city of Ushimado in Okayama Prefecture, population 7000. Many of the younger residents have already left, and the documentary's main subjects are the octagenarians Wai-chan and Kumiko, respectively a fisherman and the town crier. They are both captivating subjects, but as a cat lover I was most entranced by the stray felines who congregate at the home of transplants to the area who have been feeding them. I was engaged throughout the film's two hour plus duration, but it definitely could have been cut in places, especially the long takes on the fishing boat.
During the Q&A Soda explained that the reason he chose to make a black and white film (except for the last color scene) was that he wanted to portray Read More
WIT Life #323: Japan Week 2018
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Japan Week 2018 is taking place through the weekend at Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall, and this year's theme is 3D Trick Art. Sponsored by the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), the event strives to create an Instagrammable, interactive experience for visitors. In addition to the regular array of booths from travel agencies, various regions in Japan and Japanese food and drink purveyors, there are several large backdrops into which you can insert yourself for the ultimate selfie. My favorite was the bowl of ramen into which you can become one of the ingredients, and others include becoming a topping for sushi, helping to carry the mikoshi at a matsuri and shuttling around a sumo wrestler in a rickshaw (Fujifilm is even on hand to help you print out these funny shots after you take them!). Read More
WIT Life #322: Then They Came for Me
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Written by freelance Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03), WIT Life is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as language, film, business, food and politics. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei's newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
Sign from Japanese-run business telling customers their clothing won't be brought to the incarceration camp
After interpreting in Manhattan Criminal Court earlier this week, I stopped for lunch in Chinatown and found myself with some time on my hands afterwards. I decided to visit the International Center of Photography and was nicely surprised to find the exhibition Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII (through May 6), a comprehensive portrayal of this reprehensible period in American history. It includes works from prominent photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, letters and other personal mementos, and moving video testimonials from those who were incarcerated or have family members who had been.
From 1942-1946, thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated to incarceration camps in desert and swamp areas of the Western U.S. The original term for this had been "internment," but I learned from the exhibition that Japanese American organizations and scholars have developed new terminology in an effort to more accurately reflect the wrongness of what took place. Read More
WIT Life #321: Sato Sakura Gallery
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Written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03), WIT Life is a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as language, film, business, food and politics. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei's newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
Last September, Chelsea received a great addition to its art scene in the form of the Sato Sakura Gallery. This Japan-born museum has two locations (Fukushima/Tokyo) that specialize in 日本画 (Nihon-ga or traditional Japanese painting). This term and concept was created in response to 西洋画 (Seiyou-ga or Western painting), which made its way to Japan during the Meiji Era (1868). Today the idea of Nihon-ga can refer to both purely traditional Japanese painting, as well as new styles of painting that incorporate Western painting methods while remaining faithful to traditional Japanese painting techniques.
The inaugural exhibit at the new Chelsea location has 桜 (sakura or cherry blossoms) as its theme , and showcases 12 different artists and their works. They range from regular-sized paintings to giant folding screens, and my favorites were from self-proclaimed "flower and cherry blossom maniac" Reiji Hiramatsu. In particular, his work "Playful Carps" piece is impressive. Its bright colors are striking, and I enjoy the playfulness of the fish in a pond with petals filling its surface. I also really like his "Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossoms," Read More
WIT Life #320: アケオメ!
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明けましておめでとうございます! A happy new year of the dog to everyone. This post's title (Ake ome!) is the abbreviated version of the official Japanese new year greeting (Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!). Surprisingly, two of my senpai had never heard of this colloquialism before. Perhaps I'm dating myself but I remember it being popular to say during the time I lived in Japan, though I'm not so sure about now (and maybe it wasn't around when my older colleagues spent time in Japan).
My previous post discussed the kanji of the year (北, kita or north), and I just came across an article highlighting some of Japan's 2017 buzzwords. Read More
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Panasonic Viera S20 (TX-L32S20B) review: Panasonic Viera S20 (TX-L32S20B)
By Patrick Wignall
July 29, 2010 7:31 AM PDT
Compare These
LG OLEDB8P series
TCL 6 series (2018 Roku TV)
LG OLEDC9P series
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The Good Integrated Freeview HD tuner; comfortable remote control; good standard- and high-definition performance; impressive black levels.
The Bad No support for media streaming or online services; pricey for what you get.
The Bottom Line The Panasonic Viera TX-L32S20B offers good picture performance, and, with the World Cup just around the corner, the Freeview HD tuner will appeal to football fans. The rest of the feature set is rather basic given the set's high price tag, though
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Panasonic Viera S20 (TX-L32S20B)
Panasonic may be best known for its superb plasma TVs, but it's also knocked out plenty of impressive LCD sets too. The 32-inch, 1080p Panasonic Viera TX-L32S20B LCD TV has arrived with a Freeview HD tuner just in the time for the World Cup. But, at £650, it's expensive compared to many 32-inch models from other manufacturers. Does its performance justify its price?
No ocular feast
The TX-L32S20B sits near the middle of Panasonic's current LCD line-up. As with many of the company's mid-range models, its design isn't exactly eye-catching. Panasonic has added a slightly textured finish to the bezel, but it looks rather plasticky. The design is made less dull by a pleasant-looking bluish flash across the bottom of the frame.
The TX-L32S20B has a pretty standard array of ports for a 32-inch model. There are two HDMI sockets on the rear, plus an additional one on the side, letting you easily hook up camcorders and other portable devices.
The rear is also home to a component input, as well as two Scart sockets, a VGA connection and a composite video port. There's a USB socket too, but this can only be used to view photos or play a limited range of video file formats from digital cameras. It can't be used to play DivX or MKV files from a portable hard drive, for example. Sadly, although the set has an Ethernet port, unlike higher-end Panasonic models, there's no support for the Viera Cast Internet service or media streaming across a network.
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Some of us aren't really into showing off skin, whatever the season is. We'd rather wear long sleeve shirts whether it's blazing hot outside.
These basic shirts have come a long way. Most styles are simple but if you know how to style them, your outfit won't look too boring. Below are some style tips on how to up your game with long sleeve shirts.
A gray long sleeve shirt is a basic essential in everybody's wardrobe. Style yours with denim jeans and statement sneakers for a trendy look.
If you can layer short sleeves shirts, you can layer long sleeve shirts too. Of course, wearing it with a long sleeved outerwear will make your arms look bulky, especially if the arm areas are tight. Try pairing it with a longline vest or a sleeveless blazer which can be worn to the office also.
Knit long sleeve tops are very comfy and can be worn when transitioning your outfits to different seasons. The key is to pair it with white jeans and flats for spring or boots for autumn.
If you're going to have one printed long sleeve shirt in your life, you're going to need a stripe one because it matches a lot of your bottoms and outerwear. Choose one with black and white or navy and white.
Here's a perfectly casual look for the weekends – a statement handbag, denim jeans, slip-on sneakers and khaki long sleeves.
Pair your stripe top with black midi skirt which is perfect for work. Instead of caged and open-toe high heels, try wearing it with black flats or closed-toe high heels.
With a burgundy long sleeve shirt, tuck it in a floral skirt to create an easy-going, feminine ensemble.
Balance your entire look by wearing a short shorts paired with your long sleeve top.
An oversized long sleeve t-shirt can double up as a dress and will even look great with leggings and knee-high boots.
With another printed bottom like this cute black and white shorts, you can pair it with black long sleeve shirt or even colored ones then just finish off the look with pointed-toe ankle boots for an edgy getup.
Which one is your favorite look? Let us know if we have convinced you to buy your own long sleeve shirt.


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Rob's BidBlog
A Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Bid – Really?
Published: Jul 15, 2011 2:37 PM2:37 PM
As I write, reports are streaming out of Japan that a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has rumbled through central regions of the country, including Tokyo. While relatively minor, the tremble surely invoked memories of the earthquake and resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster that impacted the nation earlier in the year.
Friday's quake would have been felt by the hundreds of dignitaries, athletes and journalists who were visiting for a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC). Timed for the event, the JOC is expected to announce that Tokyo will bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
There are so many things wrong – and right – about this.
An Olympic bid isn't new, or unexpected for Tokyo. The 1964 Olympic host city last bid for the 2016 Games and was soundly defeated by Rio de Janeiro and Madrid on a platform that stressed sustainability and a Games for the athletes at the centre of the city. The bid wasn't ready and the timing, a critical element in these contests, was all wrong – Rio's destiny was in the way. But after the failed campaign, the JOC has always hinted that there would be another try.
But after the quake, everything has changed. A follow-up bid suddenly isn't necessary, but at the same time seems more important than ever.
Being almost unavoidable, a bid for 2020 would likely focus on the aftermath of the disasters. But interestingly this same focus will help propel both supporters of the bid as well as their opponents.
JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda believes the Games will help the recovery and reconstruction of his country – but that can only happen if the Games are won. Winning an Olympic bid campaign now will be fraught with many obstacles for Tokyo.
Last week PyeongChang, South Korea was elected to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, to be held two years earlier and on the same continent as Japan. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge told reporters that since those are Winter Games and Tokyo would be competing for Summer Games – there shouldn't be a problem. It's an easy thing to say, but try convincing 110 IOC members who have historically awarded Asia only a token share of the Games – and who are now setting their sights further west for the next instalment.
You could argue that IOC members might be sentimental, appeal to the emotional recovery story, and forget petty geopolitics to really help out Olympic friends in dire need. But before you throw weight behind that, consider that in reaction to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, Rome's mayor said that other cities should concede the 2012 bid to the battered city. The Big Apple bid, leveraging 9/11 'goodwill' from time-to-time, but ultimately placed fourth after London was awarded the Games. The IOC voters were all business.
Strong bids, each with their own compelling stories, are beginning to line up for the same Games including Madrid representing a fifth straight Spanish bid; five-time bidder Istanbul; Rome and perhaps World Cup Cinderella story Doha, Qatar.
A bid could cost USD $150 million, win or lose. While this number seems insignificant compared with the billions needed to rebuild, impacted residents who have lost their homes or business to the tsunami won't easily listen to a proposal that includes spending the money on an international campaign to promote sport in Tokyo – while they lack the funds to rebuild their shattered lives.
And as for hope – winning the Games would be a long shot at best – is this an appropriate tease for the thousands who have suffered in the devastated regions? The typical Olympic values of competition really don't apply here.
If the Games were guaranteed to Japan, it would be a much more compelling proposition. Creating a common national goal and fulfilling a dream would benefit the entire country. The creation of jobs and investment would speed up recovery and plans could be made to share the benefits between the Tokyo area and the recovering regions. I'm convinced that the Games could do all of this and more.
But the JOC can't move forward just on the premise that these Games will be won. In order for the bid to be palatable, there needs to be a real legacy from the bid itself – and the millions of dollars spent to that end.
Can a bid really create hope for a better future, even without the pretense that it will be successful? Will the tsunami victims somehow benefit from a bid, or even the Games themselves, more than if the funds were sent directly to the agencies that are now helping them the most?
There may be a way, but these are the questions that the JOC needs to answer, and what the team should be thinking about as they build a campaign.
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There are a TON of free resources out there for the FE exam. I'm not going to list all of them, but if you feel like I missed some great ones, please let me know and I'll get them posted.
Having said that, here are the best free and not-so-free resources to help you pass the FE exam. Let's get started. Also, for any books you get at PPI use the checkout code of CEA15 to get 15% off!
Full disclosure: I want to be completely upfront about the resources that are listed here. Most items listed are affiliate links that provide, at no cost to you, a small commission to me for helping you find products that will help you reach your goals of becoming a PE. We are an affiliate with PPI and we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. I work hard to find the best resources for you and I have experience with a lot of the items listed. Please do not spend money on obtaining these books and materials unless it helps you to achieve your goal. That said, let's get to it!
Let's start with this book--the FE Reference Handbook. You MUST become familiar with it. It's the ONLY book that you'll have access to while taking the exam. Because the exam is computer-based, this reference book is available alongside of the on-screen exam. It will be electronically searchable, etc. So, it helps to become intimately familiar with it BEFORE it's actually time to take the exam.
You should be using this book to solve all of your practice problems. It should be your go-to resource for referencing equations for problems.
You can pick up a cheap physical copy or even a free digital copy at the NCEES website. Go and get one NOW.
This is the official practice exam developed by NCEES. This is a must for any student studying for the FE exam.
I do have some issues with this exam, though. First, it's only 50 questions, not 110 questions like the real exam. Second, you have 2.5 hours to complete it within 6 months of purchase.
It's the most realistic exam, obviously, but why only ask 50 questions and give you 2.5 hours to try your hand at it? I'd recommend finding a hard copy of an actual 110-question exam so that you can get a feel for the full FE exam.
It's a must-buy, but it's missing some key parts that'll give you the FULL exam feel.
I know, this book is old. It's really old for how fast information and these exams change. But let me tell you - this book is awesome! It's a great reference for studying as it explains each section of study. It includes great practice problems, too.
I've recommended this reference book to students preparing for the FE exam and they've all told me that it was a great help, even with the current computer-based exam format.
It's fairly cheap and it's a great reference material; I highly recommend it.
The guys at PPI2PASS have books to prepare any engineer to pass the exams they need, and the FE is no exception. We've got a special deal if you go through PPI. Use the code CEA15 and get 15% off at checkout!
FE Civil Review Manual by Michael Lindeburg is a complete review manual for the FE exam. It's probably THE most popular book out there so I imagine that it's pretty good. Check it out, read the reviews, and give it a shot. I think you'll like it.
Right along side it is the FE Civil Practice problems book that will help you gain the practice you need to ace the exam.
" The FE Civil Review Manual offers complete coverage of FE Civil exam knowledge areas and the relevant elements - equations, figures, and tables - from the NCEES FE Reference Handbook. With 16 mini-exams to assess your grasp of the exam's knowledge areas, and concise explanations of thousands of equations and hundreds of figures and tables, the review manual contains everything you need to prepare for the FE civil exam."
1001 Solved Engineering Fundamental Problems is exactly what it says it is. It's 1001 solved problems.
"Here's a wide-ranging collection of practice problems typical of the FE exam in every respect. All exam topics are covered and SI units are used. These multiple-choice questions are conveniently arranged by subject--so you can work through just the areas where you need practice, or all 1001 problems. A full, step-by-step solution is provided for each problem."
If you purchase through PPI2PASS use the code CEA15 and you'll receive 15% off the book!
Below are various links to YouTube Playlists that will give you a great review for the FE. If the material I gathered for you above doesn't cut it, then check out everything we have below, too!
The old spec from NCEES used to include some electronics and other areas that are not found on the civil FE anymore. You might run into a couple of lectures on those, but for the most part this is excellent stuff. Check it out below.
YouTube has a TON of videos on the FE and preparing for it. Sam Mineer has compiled a great review course that is composed of videos found all throughout YouTube's site. This contains over 31 hours of video to help you.
This playlist is pretty good. They cover individual topics so you can see how to solve problems quickly. No real lecture, just great problem solving. Sam Mineer borrowed some from this list.
This should really be the first videos you should be watching. This covers everything to deal with the exam and how it is administered, taken, etc. Check out the NCEES playlist to make sure you understand what you are getting into.
Bagley College has a great YouTube series on the FE. I thought it was very helpful and they even offer material for other disciplines like mechanical engineering. Check them out!


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Q: Why is the load method of a datatable sometimes so slow? The project is a web app in ASP/VB.net. The issue is that some pages are mind-boggingly slow. After trying to track down the bottleneck, it was discovered to be the load method when filling a datatable with query results.
We are using an Oracle database and queries are executed in stored procedures. As an example, we have a relatively simple select statement within a procedure which returns 2 columns with 6 rows which was determined to take about 0.015 seconds to execute. However it takes on average 7 seconds to load the OracleDataReader into a datatable - a ridiculous amount of time for such a small record set. After messing around with the query, I found that a simple decode statement appeared to be causing the issue. The decode statement is used similar to as follows:
WHERE
    DECODE(iBln, 1, column1, column2) BETWEEN iDate1 and iDate2
The iBln variable is simply a number being passed in to act as a boolean variable for determining which column should be between two dates. If I comment this decode statement out and make it simply "column1 BETWEEN iDate1 and iDate2" then the load method takes no time at all as it should, signifying that it is indeed the decode statement causing issues.
So I'm just hoping to hear from anyone that could have an idea as to what's causing this or how to fix it. It's a simple decode, how does it even affect the load method anyway?

A: I would verify that indexes exist for column1 and column2.  If so, the likely problem is that the DECODE is preventing the use of the indexes.  Try rewriting as:
WHERE ( ( iBin = 1 AND column1 BETWEEN iDate1 AND iDate2)
        OR
        ( (iBin IS NULL OR iBin <> 1) AND column2 BETWEEN iDate1 AND iDate2)
      )

A: If your stored procedure is returning a REF CURSOR, opening the cursor in the stored procedure will be very fast regardless of the query you're executing.  Opening a cursor doesn't require that Oracle do any of the work of actually running the query, it just requires that Oracle determine the query plan which should be more or less instantaneous.
How long does it take to fetch the data from the REF CURSOR in something like SQL*Plus?  If it takes something close to 7 seconds (as I suspect it will), you can eliminate the OracleDataReader class as the source of the problem.  In that case, the problem would almost certainly be that the query plan is inefficient.
Based on your description, my guess is that column1 is indexed.  column2 may also be indexed, it's not clear.  But a regular index on either column1 or column2 could not be used to evaluate the predicate that involves the call to the DECODE function.  If there are no other predicates on indexed columns, that may force Oracle to do a table scan on the underlying table (posting the full query, the table definition, and the query plan would be helpful).

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'use strict';

var Cylon = require('cylon');
var PIN = require('./pin')
var PINS = {
  1: 1,
  2: 2,
  3: 3,
  4: 4,
  5: 5,
  6: 6,
  7: 7,
  8: 8,
  9: 9,
  10: 10,
  11: 11,
  12: 12,
  13: 13,
  14: 14,
  15: 15,
  16: 16,
  17: 17,
  18: 18
};

var PcDuino = module.exports = function PcDuino() {
	PcDuino.__super__.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
	this.board = "";
	this.pins = {};
	this.myself = this;
};

Cylon.Utils.subclass(PcDuino, Cylon.Adaptor);

PcDuino.prototype.commands = [
	'pins', 'pinMode', 'digitalRead', 'digitalWrite',
	'firmwareName'
];

PcDuino.prototype.connect = function(callback) {
	this.proxyMethods(this.commands, this.board, this.myself);
	callback();
};

PcDuino.prototype.disconnect = function(callback) {
	Cylon.Logger.debug("Disconnecting all pins...");
	this._disconnectPins();
	Cylon.Logger.debug("Disconnecting from board '" + this.name + "'...");
	this.emit('disconnect');
	callback();
};

PcDuino.prototype.firmwareName = function() {
	return 'pcDuino';
};

PcDuino.prototype.digitalRead = function(pinNum, drCallback) {
	var pin = this.pins[this._translatePin(pinNum)];

	if (pin == null) {
		pin = this._digitalPin(pinNum, 'r');
		pin.on('digitalRead', function(val) {
			this.emit('digitalRead', val);
			drCallback(null, val);
		}.bind(this));
		pin.on('connect', function() {
			pin.digitalRead(20);
		});
		pin.connect();
	}

	return true;
};

PcDuino.prototype.digitalWrite = function(pinNum, value) {
	var pin = this.pins[this._translatePin(pinNum)];

	if ((pin != null)) {
		pin.digitalWrite(value);
	} else {
		pin = this._digitalPin(pinNum, 'w');
		pin.on('digitalWrite', function(val) {
			this.emit('digitalWrite', val);
		}.bind(this));
		pin.on('connect', function() {
			pin.digitalWrite(value);
		});
		pin.connect();
	}

	return value;
};

PcDuino.prototype._digitalPin = function(pinNum, mode) {
	var gpioPinNum;
	gpioPinNum = this._translatePin(pinNum);

	if (this.pins[gpioPinNum] == null) {
		this.pins[gpioPinNum] = new PIN({
			pin: gpioPinNum,
			mode: mode
		});
	}

	return this.pins[gpioPinNum];
};

PcDuino.prototype._translatePin = function(pinNum) {
	return PINS[pinNum];
};

PcDuino.prototype._disconnectPins = function() {
	var key, pin, _ref, _ref1, _results;
	_ref = this.pins;

	for (key in _ref) {
		pin = _ref[key];
		pin.closeSync();
	}

	_ref1 = this.pwmPins;
	_results = [];

	for (key in _ref1) {
		pin = _ref1[key];
		_results.push(pin.closeSync());
	}

	return _results;
};

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Caring Pharmacy Group Bhd is an investment holding company, which engages in the operation of community pharmacy including retailing of pharmaceutical, healthcare, and personal care products. The company's product offerings include scheduled drugs, over-the-counter drugs, health supplements, personal care products, healthcare devices, health food, confectionery, beverages, and household products. The firm principally operates in Malaysia.
singh1 You can check any stock on this website. For free float check summary. copy paste the following.
We have screened on CARING PHARMACY GROUP BERHAD on 28 Aug that it has a potential up side and it has gone more than 20% up as of 4 Sep closing.
You may get the daily stock screening after 9:00PM for potential upside stocks for the next trading day. It's free and you may sign up at.
iPong5 Bought at RM1.00. Contemplating to sell.
singh1 Until now no news to explain the upward trend. Not easy to decide to hold or sell.
I have decided not to sell and will keep as this counter has a lot of potential.
leehualoon The Board of Directors of CARING wishes to announce that the Company proposes to seek the shareholders' approval for the proposed authority for the Company to purchase its own shares ("Proposed Share Buy-Back Authority") at the forthcoming annual general meeting.
A Statement to Shareholders containing the details of the Proposed Share Buy-Back Authority will be dispatched to the shareholders of CARING in due course.
singh1 Why privatize in just two years after listing?
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Noni At current price, is tough call.
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Flintstones Mind to share more? Korean plan?
sleang Better QoQ results, but price dropped from 2.x to 1.85? Something wrong?
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PARIS ARISTOTLE. Rescuing people on Nauru and Manus Island.
By P&I Guest Archive | On 5 September 2016
Statement from the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, regarding people transferred by Australia to the refugee processing centres of Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House) urges the Australian Government to take action now to relieve the plight of asylum seekers who have been transferred to Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
The great majority of people who were transferred have been recognised as refugees but there is no plan to enable them to rebuild their lives in safety and with dignity.
Foundation House is deeply concerned about the deteriorating wellbeing of these people, who have lived with relentless uncertainty in difficult circumstances for years. Our extensive experience working with refugees indicates strongly that the primary cause of their decline is the pervasive sense of hopelessness about any prospect of a decent future for themselves and their families. Under the current circumstances the pace of deterioration is likely to accelerate, posing an even greater risk of serious long term mental health problems.
If the governments involved don't take swift action to restore hope, we believe it is highly likely that many more men and women will express their despair by attempting to harm and kill themselves. We also hold grave concerns that children and young people in Nauru will respond in the same ways.
Improving conditions and services in PNG and Nauru will not prevent this.
An effective and sustainable response must involve the option of resettlement in countries – including Australia – which offer the opportunity for refugees to become integral members of society, to live in security and to participate in the economic, social and cultural life of their new homes.
Foundation House appreciates the concerns of the Australian Government and Opposition about the revival of people smuggling. We also appreciate that if the desperation of people seeking protection in Australia was once again to be exploited by people smugglers, many children, women and men will die.
This need not occur.
Australia, Indonesia and other nations have increased their capacity to respond to irregular migration.
To ensure this can be sustainable we must also build a regional system based on established human rights principles, which aims to ensure that asylum seekers are protected properly in countries of first asylum or transit, are processed fairly, and, for those found to be refugees, are afforded timely settlement outcomes.
The immediate imperative is that Australia acts swiftly to change the present policy settings that are inflicting serious harm.
Paris Aristotle has been an adviser on refugee issues to successive governments. He was a member of the Houston Panel on refugee issues. He is the CEO of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture.
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John Laurence Menadue is the publisher of Pearls & Irritations. He has had a distinguished career both in the private sector and in the Public Service.
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