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Judy Mundey: 'The struggles of ordinary people need to be documented'
Judy Mundey
Judy Mundey at the Dare to Struggle Film Festival launch. Photo: Peter Boyle
Judy Mundey is the patron of the Dare to Struggle Film Festival, which was launched at the NSW Teachers' Federation on April 18 with a new film about Jack Mundey made by Jill Hickson and John Reynolds of Art Resistance. She gave the following presentation prior to the film's premiere.
The people behind the festival have been kind enough to say that Jack Mundey's work has been the inspiration behind the project. The film we will see later shows something of Jack's life and politics.
Jack first became publicly known because of the early struggles and innovative campaigning of the NSW Builder's Labourers Federation to win better wages and conditions for the members of the union.
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Jack Mundey's lasting legacy on Sydney's cityscape
He had come from Far North Queensland to Sydney to play football and obtained paid employment as a builders' labourer.
The work was notoriously lacking in safety measures, the amenities on site almost non-existent and the wages poor.
He joined the union only to discover that those who tried to do something about improving wages and conditions on the job were soon dismissed, not only with the support of the union leadership but often at their instigation.
He joined the rank-and-file organisation which, in an excellent example of daring to struggle, eventually overthrew the previous, corrupt, leadership of the union.
The newly-militant union's campaigning for decent wages, amenities and safety on the job brought success, but could often be described as unconventional and certainly innovative.
Probably it was the use of the vigilante groups that brought most attention in those early days.
This was where building work constructed by scab labour, brought in by employers to defeat strike action, was demolished by the union vigilantes.
This brought howls of outraged protest and scathing attacks on the union in the mass media and from governments and employers. But, in one interview, shown in Pat Fiske's 1985 film Rocking the Foundations, it was pointed out that 23 building workers had died on building sites that year and this, rather than the loss of some brick walls, was the real outrage.
The union's campaigns were very successful: there was a huge growth in the union's membership, the members developed pride in their union and had a new found self-respect.
These early struggles and the democratic practices of the union were vital to winning the support of the members when it later became involved in other campaigns, including support for Aboriginal land rights, for the rights of a gay student who had suffered discrimination and, in particular, for the Green Bans, which became internationally known and acclaimed.
In a 2016 article published in Links, John Tully described the NSW BLF as "the most radical and innovative union the world has ever seen".
They were not always lauded. Quite the reverse.
There was a great deal of negative publicity — including sneering coverage about builder's labourers imposing bans to save buildings and places of historical, architectural, social or environmental importance as if builder's labourers could not appreciate history or beauty or nature.
But, thankfully, much of this wonderful history of the BLF has been recorded in Fiske's marvelous and memorable Rocking the Foundations. Without such films, history is easily forgotten.
I don't like to criticise the ABC. We need it more than ever. But a small example of this might be a recent ABC television series on home restorations. Two of the featured homes in the series were in the Rocks area of Sydney. The Rocks is Australia's oldest white urban precinct and dates from the 1790s. It was home to a close knit working-class community, many living in the terrace homes that were a feature of the area.
In the 1970s the then state government planned to demolish the historical architecture and build high rise. This plan was defeated by a Green Ban, imposed at the request of the local resident action group.
There was no mention of this history, in either of the ABC programs. There was history about the whaling ship captain, who had owned one of the houses, but nothing about the Green Ban. Yet without that Green Ban, even if either of the terrace houses had survived, they would have been hugely overshadowed by high rise office towers, with the historical character of the area completely destroyed.
I doubt that either home would have then been purchased by their restorers, let alone been the subject of a home restoration program.
Fiske's film reminds us vividly of that history of saving The Rocks.
In Sydney, we have become used to seeing a well-organised Mardi Gras parade through Sydney's streets each year (COVID-19 aside) with large numbers of people taking part and large numbers of people to cheer them on.
But, in 1978, it wasn't like that. There were no police taking part as a contingent in the march. They were there, but to disrupt, attack, arrest and bash those brave enough to take part and stand up for the rights of gay people.
But if those brave people had not organised, not dared to struggle, there would be no Mardi Gras as we know it. There would be no same-sex marriage legislation and there would still be ferocious oppression and discrimination.
A marvellous film Riot records the history of that struggle and the courageous role played by the pioneers.
The recent film Women of Steel records the struggle by women to win the right to work at the steel works in Wollongong and the award winning film, Radical Wollongong, is about the history of radical struggle by people in that working class area.
As the organisers of the Dare to Struggle Film Festival say: "These types of stories are poorly represented in main stream film festivals or the media because they clash with the interests of their corporate and government sponsors".
The progressive political movement has a history of progressive cultural contributions, including film making.
The Waterside Workers Federation, the precursor of the Maritime Union, had a film unit in the 1950s. In just five years it produced 19 films on subjects that other film or newsreel producers did not tackle. For example, it produced a film truthfully portraying the pitiful living conditions in the slum areas of Paddington and Surry Hills.
That film was made to contribute to a broader campaign being organised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Building Workers Industrial Union (the precursor to the current Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy union) to try to obtain better living conditions.
The union leaders believed the creative arts, including film, were invaluable in putting forward an alternative picture to the mainstream media.
How much more important it is now to support independent film makers, with ever shrinking media diversity?
This issue has even spurred two recent prime ministers to speak out: Liberal Malcolm Turnbull, who gave evidence to a Senate inquiry earlier this month about Rupert Murdoch, and Labor's Kevin Rudd. The Senate inquiry is being held because more than 500,000 people signed a petition organised by Rudd voicing concerns about the concentration of the media. We would agree, but might query why the issue was not addressed when they had some power to do so.
Such media concentration makes it less likely we will see stories of the struggles of ordinary people.
As for union film units, they largely no longer exist. Unions continue to struggle with falling membership and are always facing industrial "reforms" that would weaken them further. If the government had its way it would further de-unionise the workforce, possibly achieving something like the situation of the un-unionised Amazon workforce in the United States. They could certainly do with some progressive film-makers.
Meanwhile, here at home, we have widespread wage theft, irreparable environmental damage due to runaway climate change, ongoing species extinction, the disgraceful refugee situation, continuing damage to our river systems, the murderous situation in West Papua in our near north and Aboriginal people still dying in custody 30 years after the Royal Commission. Everyone here could point to issues that need coverage.
The Dare to Struggle Film Festival is being established to help focus on, tell the stories of, and document struggles for justice.
Today is its launch and the material distributed invites those who can to donate to help make the Festival a reality and to build on the fine traditions of progressive film making, helping to strengthen the social movements that are so urgently needed.
[Judy Mundey, a retired barrister, was elected as the first female president of the Communist Party of Australia in 1979. She was married to the late Jack Mundey. For more information, buy a copy of the film about Jack Mundey and to make a donation to help the film festival, visit www.daretostrugglefilmfestival.net.au.]
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Paul McAleer at the Dare to Struggle Film Festival launch. Photo: Peter Boyle
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Happy birthday and thank you Green Left for bringing us real news from real people. Lord knows we need a voice we can trust.
Tracey Carpenter Veteran campaign director and activist


Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) recently reviewed Rethinking Postcolonialism in the journal French Studies (published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for French Studies).
Author: Charles Forsdick, French Studies (2011) 65 (4): 559-560.
"[…] Amar Acheraiou posits the concept of "rethinking postcolonialism" as a means to reconsider and re-evaluate literatures produced during the period of colonization, to reconfigure oneself as a postcolonial subject, and to render arbitrary the politically determined boundary between colonialism and postcolonialism, like the critically determined boundary between modernism and postmodernism, and thus to expand postcolonialism's historical and cultural capacity. Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonial Discourse in Modern Literature and the Legacy of Classical Writers is distinguished by the scope of its subjects, ranging from Conrad to Gide, Kipling to Camus, in the context of an actual colonialism, as distinguished from a historicized one. Acheraiou's rethought colonialism is more a personal interpretation of a human tendency to dominate members of their own species than a conventional postcolonial theory of literature, oral production, art, and culture, because Acheraiou prefers to see colonialism as "an immemorial phenomenon" (3), as distinguished from the time-specific phenomenon of various hegemonic European empires in the New World over the past five hundred years. Thus, in the arc of his discussion he addresses how classical writings have influenced colonial discourse over the last two centuries and how constructs of modernism and empire are interrelated.
Devoting only two of his eleven chapters to the almost obligatory betes noirs of Conrad's Almayer's Folly and Heart of Darkness, Acheraiou leaves himself room to address the more compelling questions of rethinking a postcolonialism that may never have been thought through in the first instance and recovering thoughts of colonialist discourse. His theory of postcolonialism is ideologically expansive and culturally inclusive, historically bold, and reminiscent of empire in that he reminds readers that colonialism has never ended and may be a universal system without an end boundary. Much of his discussion pertains to imperial ideologies, attitudes, and practices as informing specific works of literature and as evident textually. His commentary on the texts is insightful and engaging in its didactic energy. For example, on the titular character in Conrad's story "Karain: A Memory" (1897), he observes, "The ghost-ridden, superstitious Karain is a prototype concentrating the Malays' features. He is made paradigmatic of his race, culture and environment typifying the very Malay essence and tropical nature. In semiotic terms, Karain becomes a mere metonymy–the part that represents the whole–mirroring his own people. He is reduced to a generic type, organically connected to his cultural and geographical milieu" (43). The subtle rhetorical transitions apparent here, from prototype to paradigm and metonym, and from race, culture, and environment to cultural and geographical milieu, are typical more of Acheraiou's pedagogy than of his style of writing.
Pedagogical rhetoric marks an important property of this book, in that Acheraiou, rather than simply theorizing about "rethinking postcolonialism," engages his readers in a discourse that instructs in and even fosters new modes of thought distinct from the conventional outcome of a convincing scholarly argument. In reference to Ulysses, Acheraiou positions Leopold Bloom in a colonial paradigm but not as an imposition of his thesis: "The choice of Bloom as a protagonist of a novel that addresses the genesis of colonialism is in this case very appropriate. Owing to his dual identity (Irish citizen of Jewish descent) Bloom stands for the portrait of the colonised par excellence, enacting a modern Irish colonial subject and an ancient colonised Israelite. As such, he connects modern British imperialism to the most ancient imperial power, the Egyptians" (106). Rather than merely arguing that Bloom is an imperial subject, as by acknowledging his "choice" and the appropriateness of his "case," Acheraiou concedes that Bloom "stands for the portrait of the colonised" in the manner of a metonym. By inviting readers to consider Bloom according to a new model, as an imperial subject, Acheraiou actually draws attention away from Joyce's protagonist to "the portrait of the colonised," to the prototype he discusses throughout the book. Rather than rethinking Bloom, or indeed Ulysses, readers rethink colonialism by forging a continuum between two colonial powers, British (a present type) and Egyptian (an ancient prototype). Although I already know what I think about the boundless continuum of colonialism, Acheraiou's new models of "rethinking postcolonialism" provide welcome alternatives to what I must now concede is always already known: his pedagogical rhetoric has some efficacy. The rationale of his paradigm of rethinking thought through "rethinking postcolonialism" is not simply instructional, however. In addition his paradigm emphasizes how colonizers, including some colonial writers, drew on ancient colonial models such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Paul Matthew St Pierre, "Some self-reflections on colonialism and postcolonialism," English Studies in Canada 35.2-3 (June 2009).
In June 2010, The Year's Work in English Studies released reviews of Rethinking Postcolonialism in sections "XIII – The Nineteenth Century: Victorian Period" and "XIV: Modern Literature".
In the section XIV devoted to Modern Literature, Aaron Jaffe states: "For specialists in the life and work of E.M. Forster and Joseph Conrad, 2008 offered a dizzying variety of book-length monographs, new annotated editions and inventive critical essays. […] Amar Acheraiou's Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers interrogates postcolonial discourse analysis and posits a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical and ideological resonance of the 'colonial concept'. In chapters on Forster and Conrad he questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality. Acheraiou is convincing when showing that hybridity as both a theoretical tool and a historical construct is not 'a linear, flat narrative of cultural exchange' but a 'twisted, multilayered imperial tale' of 'forced encounters and unequal relationships' (p. 2). However, Acheraiou's contention that Forster and Conrad each held 'an idealised image of Greece' (p. 82) is counterbalanced by enigmatic ambivalence towards ancient Greek culture. The reading of Forster's 1903 story 'Albergo Empedocle' presents 'ancient Greece as a rampart against modernity's discontents' while at the same time pointing towards its 'impotence' as a fund of 'aesthetic and ideological' rehabilitation (p. 83)" (Jaffe, p.18-19).


The Op-Ed column is a space for readers and contributors to sound off about Art Practical's content and to contribute to the larger conversation about Bay Area art which Art Practical supports.
Re-Engineering is a series of op-ed articles and real-time conversations co-produced by Art Practical and the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts that invites constructive dialogue between the region's art and technology sectors. By bringing together seemingly disparate voices from both communities, these conversations underscore the creative impulses, capacity to take risks, and desire for positive social impact that these groups have in common.
"Re-engineering" is a periodic series of Op-Eds that address art, gentrification and the new tech economy. This is the fourth installment.
Artwork using digital technology seems poised to gain greater recognition around the globe. But where is the infrastructure to support it, and where is San Francisco positioned in this burgeoning field?
Over the past decade, I've listened as artists living and working in San Francisco have persistently voiced their frustration that a city on the forefront of technology and culture offers little to no support for artists working at this intersection. These conversations usually end on a note of despair, and intentions of moving to New York or Los Angeles, but it is clear that the immense artistic talent in the Bay Area could be foregrounded in the international community. All that is needed is a supportive framework.
Last year I cofounded Artup with collaborator Mat Dryhurst in an attempt to address this impasse head-on. Artup is a community meet-up and fund intended to catalyze tangible interactions between people at the intersection of contemporary art and digital technology.
On March 25, 2014, at Gallery 16, we will hold our next event, "Venture Culture," in partnership with Art Practical and as part of the Re-Engineering forum. It will be dedicated to exploring one approach to bridging these seemingly disparate worlds: the Cultural Incubator. Julia Kaganskiy, Director of NEW INC, and Jaime Cortez, artist and writer, will consider between themselves and with the audience the challenges and opportunities these types of institutions present.
However tempting it may be to choose sides, this is a false dichotomy.
The vast rift apparent between San Francisco's technology and art worlds is marked by misunderstanding and a lack of communication that threatens to rob the city of its opportunity to be the epicenter of new paradigms of cultural production. However tempting it may be to choose sides, this is a false dichotomy. By seeking ways to mend the fractures between camps and finding common ground, we can leverage the innovative and creative expertise unique to the Bay Area in service of transformative art.
On the other side of the coin, the established art world often views technology with skepticism.
We are left with a seemingly intractable problem of how to create a dialogue between two different worldviews that don't share a common language.8 It stands to reason that we need to explore new efforts that eschew shibboleths and instead promote the kind of cultural practices that normally fall through the cracks of existing institutional structures. An alternative model and creative workspace gaining traction is the cultural incubator. These new hybrid institutions blur the lines between art and commerce, embracing both new prototypes of cultural production and new modes of resource allocation to accelerate such work. Taking inspiration from tech-startup incubators and co-working spaces, cultural incubators attempt to bridge the gap between the humanities, providing a platform for interdisciplinary work spanning art, design, technology innovation, and entrepreneurship.
The concept has already garnered criticism.
The recently announced NEW INC is the first museum-affiliated space to champion such a model. Conceived by the New Museum, NEW INC consists of "11,000 square feet of dedicated workspace, labs, social areas, kitchen, and event space."9 Candidates apply to access these facilities with either a full-time membership at $600 per month or a part-time membership at $350 per month.
NEW INC will offer lectures and other programming to help facilitate the survival of these misfit projects, providing pragmatic advice from the startup scene to bolster work less focused on the bottom line.
The concept has already garnered criticism. Valid questions are being asked about whether the relationship between startup culture and museums is in the best interest of either party.11 There are valid concerns about whether partnerships of businesses and museums will accept the risks necessary to foment art that really breaks new ground.12 These questions seem to fear that systemic ownership of culture by capital will regiment and supplant art. But what these new institutions hope to provide are environments to provoke organic interactions between art and technology that can suggest answers to these questions. It seems wise to at least allow the experiments to run their course.
The model is not without successful precedents. In 1966, engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman founded the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) program. Ten New York artists worked with thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Labs to create installation and performance works using new technologies. The E.A.T. program culminated in a massive immersive installation at the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, and spawned twenty-eight regional chapters.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently relaunched its Art + Technology Lab program. The original Art and Technology program at LACMA, which ran from 1967 to 1971, paired artists with major technology and engineering corporations. The current endeavor "will award grants, in-kind support, and facilities at the museum to help artists take purposeful risks in order to explore new boundaries in both art and science."13 It has many corporate partners, with support from Accenture, DAQRI, NVIDIA, Google, and SpaceX.
Here in San Francisco, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts launched its first location in the mid-Market district of San Francisco in 2007 in a vacant 4,000-square-foot building. The facility housed an events space, for-rent artist studios, and co-working space, exploring some of the same notions of collaboration that are reappearing in this new wave of programs. Over the course of the last six years and three locations, Gray Area has partnered with groups such as the MIT SENSEable City Lab, Palomar5, and the Stanford d.School to create possibilities for interdisciplinary art collaborations that seep into civic engagement. Soon, Gray Area will announce a massive new location that builds upon the cultural-incubator concept with workshops, dedicated and immersive performance and theater space, and co-working arrangements.
An oft-quoted remark by R. Buckminster Fuller says, "In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."14 These words seem appropriate now as we search for adaptive mechanisms to catalyze and nurture work that doesn't fit preexisting molds. The relationship between technology and art will only become more fluid, requiring novel foundations open to experimentation, ambiguity, and flexibility to recalibrate our notions of what both contemporary art and technology innovation can be. Grappling with different and conflicting perspectives is the only way to move forward. San Francisco has the preexisting conditions necessary to be a global center for art+tech; we hope to hear your opinion at an upcoming Artup so we may forge our path together.
Barry Threw is an artist working with experiential technology. He is an advisor with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, director of software at Obscura Digital, and co-founder of Artup.
For a list of the most and the least generous tech philanthropists, see http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/tech-philanthropy/2014/3/18/meet-the-12-most-generous-tech-leaders-and-6-of-the-least.html.
I would be remiss not to mention Recombinant Media Labs (RML) in the list of vital San Francisco institutions displaced by rising rent. A surround-cinema presentation and production facility, RML was a bastion of experimental sound and video art until it lost its building in 2008. We haven't been able to find a new space since, and performance art coming through SF has never been the same. Likewise, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts had been searching for a new permanent location for two years, with little success until recently. But much more is being said about the displacement of galleries in San Francisco. See Laura C. Mallonee, "Tech Boom Brings San Francisco Gallery Diaspora," Hyperallergic, March 6, 2014, http://hyperallergic.com/112374/tech-boom-brings-san-francisco-gallery-diaspora/; and Christian L. Frock, "Priced Out: New Tech Wealth and San Francisco's Receding Art Scene," KQED, March 7, 2014, http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=134546.
Read Georgina Voss' fantastic article in the Guardian for more consideration of the DevArt program: "DevArt: Google's powerful new move to arts patronage," Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/feb/28/devart-googles-powerful-new-move-to-arts-patronage.
Raman Frey presents a view of some of the traits of artists and technologists that stand in the way of collaboration: "Art and Tech in the Bay Area: Bigger Pie Thinking for Mutual Benefit," Medium, http://medium.com/where-have-you-been-city-neighourhood-and-travel/e503f3f3601e.
Anuradha Vikram offers another perspective on the relationship between artists and technologists: "#Hashtags: Culture, Class, and the New Economy," Daily Serving, January 27, 2014, http://dailyserving.com/2014/01/hashtags-culture-class-and-the-new-economy/.
Peter Dobey offers insight into some of the communication problems between the art and tech worlds: "Some Considerations Towards an Understanding of the Worlds of Art and Tech," SFAQ, Issue 15, http://www.sfaqonline.com/2014/02/some-considerations-towards-an-understanding-of-the-worlds-of-art-and-tech/.
Alanna Martinez, "In the Air: Julia Kaganskiy on the New Museum Incubator's New Name and Plans for the Year Ahead," Artinfo, February 27, 2014, http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/02/27/julia-kaganskiy-on-the-new-museum-incubators-new-name-and-plans-for-the-year-ahead/.
"LACMA Launches Art + Technology Lab | Unframed The LACMA Blog," http://lacma.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/lacma-launches-art-technology-lab/.
"Buckminster Fuller—Everything I Know— session 01 (entire)," YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaSLipeWg.


Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has launched a research initiative aimed at helping government leaders better respond to and manage crisis situations.
Harvard officials say the program, called Acting in Time, will generate research, discussion and ideas to overcome the incapacity of governments to react quickly to catastrophic events.
The program will not focus on specific solutions to disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina or terrorist acts, but rather will explore why governments are unable or unwilling to act when such events occur, officials said.
"It is important to look beyond the crisis of the moment to the fundamental ability of governments and leaders to take action when they need to do so," said Christopher Stone, faculty chairman of Acting in Time and a professor of the practice of criminal justice at Harvard.
Solutions are rarely missing when governments face critical challenges, he said.
Acting in Time will support a series of research projects exploring reasons why governments fail to act and how they can surmount obstacles such as costs or political divisions in time to ensure a more positive outcome when disaster strikes. Kennedy School faculty will lead the projects in collaboration with experts at the school and in other departments at Harvard.


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Q: jQuery validate: How to add a rule for regular expression validation? I am using the jQuery validation plugin. Great stuff! I want to migrate my existing ASP.NET solution to use jQuery instead of the ASP.NET validators. I am missing a replacement for the regular expression validator. I want to be able to do something like this:
$("Textbox").rules("add", { regularExpression: "^[a-zA-Z'.\s]{1,40}$" })

How do I add a custom rule to achieve this?

A: You can use the addMethod()
e.g
$.validator.addMethod('postalCode', function (value) {
    return /^((\d{5}-\d{4})|(\d{5})|([A-Z]\d[A-Z]\s\d[A-Z]\d))$/.test(value);
}, 'Please enter a valid US or Canadian postal code.');

good article here https://web.archive.org/web/20130609222116/http://www.randallmorey.com/blog/2008/mar/16/extending-jquery-form-validation-plugin/

A: This is working code.
function validateSignup()
{
    $.validator.addMethod(
            "regex",
            function(value, element, regexp)
            {
                if (regexp.constructor != RegExp)
                    regexp = new RegExp(regexp);
                else if (regexp.global)
                    regexp.lastIndex = 0;
                return this.optional(element) || regexp.test(value);
            },
            "Please check your input."
    );

    $('#signupForm').validate(
    {

        onkeyup : false,
        errorClass: "req_mess",
        ignore: ":hidden",
        validClass: "signup_valid_class",
        errorClass: "signup_error_class",

        rules:
        {

            email:
            {
                required: true,
                email: true,
                regex: /^[A-Za-z0-9_]+\@[A-Za-z0-9_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_]+/,
            },

            userId:
            {
                required: true,
                minlength: 6,
                maxlength: 15,
                regex: /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{6,15}$/,
            },

            phoneNum:
            {
                required: true,
                regex: /^[+-]{1}[0-9]{1,3}\-[0-9]{10}$/,
            },

        },
        messages:
        {
            email:
            {
                required: 'You must enter a email',
                regex: 'Please enter a valid email without spacial chars, ie, Example@gmail.com'
            },

            userId:
            {
                required: 'Alphanumeric, _, min:6, max:15',
                regex: "Please enter any alphaNumeric char of length between 6-15, ie, sbp_arun_2016"
            },

            phoneNum:
            {
                required: "Please enter your phone number",
                regex: "e.g. +91-1234567890"
            },

        },

        submitHandler: function (form)
        {
            return true;
        }
    });
}

A: I had some trouble putting together all the pieces for doing a jQuery regular expression validator, but I got it to work... Here is a complete working example. It uses the 'Validation' plugin which can be found in jQuery Validation Plugin
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

        <form id="LOGIN" name="LOGIN" method="post" action="/index/secure/authentication?action=login">

Log In

                Email Address
                <input id="EMAIL" name="EMAIL" type="text" value="" tabindex="1" />

                Password
                <input id="PASSWORD" name="PASSWORD" type="password" value="" tabindex="2" />

                <input id="SUBMIT" name="SUBMIT" type="submit" value="Submit" tabindex="3" />

        </form>

A: Thanks to the answer of redsquare I added a method like this:
$.validator.addMethod(
  "regex",
  function(value, element, regexp) {
    var re = new RegExp(regexp);
    return this.optional(element) || re.test(value);
  },
  "Please check your input."
);

Now all you need to do to validate against any regex is this:
$("#Textbox").rules("add", { regex: "^[a-zA-Z'.\\s]{1,40}$" })

Additionally, it looks like there is a file called additional-methods.js that contains the method "pattern", which can be a RegExp when created using the method without quotes.

Edit
The pattern function is now the preferred way to do this, making the example:
$("#Textbox").rules("add", { pattern: "^[a-zA-Z'.\\s]{1,40}$" })

*

*https://cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery-validate

*

*https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.min.js

*https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/additional-methods.min.js

A: we mainly use the markup notation of jquery validation plugin and the posted samples did not work for us, when flags are present in the regex, e.g.
<input type="text" name="myfield" regex="/^[0-9]{3}$/i" />

therefore we use the following snippet
$.validator.addMethod(
        "regex",
        function(value, element, regstring) {
            // fast exit on empty optional
            if (this.optional(element)) {
                return true;
            }

            var regParts = regstring.match(/^\/(.*?)\/([gim]*)$/);
            if (regParts) {
                // the parsed pattern had delimiters and modifiers. handle them.
                var regexp = new RegExp(regParts[1], regParts[2]);
            } else {
                // we got pattern string without delimiters
                var regexp = new RegExp(regstring);
            }

            return regexp.test(value);
        },
        "Please check your input."
);

Of course now one could combine this code, with one of the above to also allow passing RegExp objects into the plugin, but since we didn't needed it we left this exercise for the reader ;-).
PS: there is also bundled plugin for that, https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation/blob/master/src/additional/pattern.js

A: No reason to define the regex as a string.
$.validator.addMethod(
    "regex",
    function(value, element, regexp) {
        var check = false;
        return this.optional(element) || regexp.test(value);
    },
    "Please check your input."
);

and
telephone: { required: true, regex : /^[\d\s]+$/, minlength: 5 },

tis better this way, no?

A: Extending PeterTheNiceGuy's answer a bit:
$.validator.addMethod(
        "regex",
        function(value, element, regexp) {
            if (regexp.constructor != RegExp)
                regexp = new RegExp(regexp);
            else if (regexp.global)
                regexp.lastIndex = 0;
            return this.optional(element) || regexp.test(value);
        },
        "Please check your input."
);

This would allow you to pass a regex object to the rule.
$("Textbox").rules("add", { regex: /^[a-zA-Z'.\s]{1,40}$/ });

Resetting the lastIndex property is necessary when the g-flag is set on the RegExp object. Otherwise it would start validating from the position of the last match with that regex, even if the subject string is different.
Some other ideas I had was be to enable you use arrays of regex's, and another rule for the negation of regex's:
$("password").rules("add", {
    regex: [
        /^[a-zA-Z'.\s]{8,40}$/,
        /^.*[a-z].*$/,
        /^.*[A-Z].*$/,
        /^.*[0-9].*$/
    ],
    '!regex': /password|123/
});

But implementing those would maybe be too much.

A: This worked for me, being one of the validation rules:
    Zip: {
                required: true,
                regex: /^\d{5}(?:[-\s]\d{4})?$/
            }

Hope it helps

A: As mentioned on the addMethod documentation:
Please note: While the temptation is great to add a regex method that checks it's parameter against the value, it is much cleaner to encapsulate those regular expressions inside their own method. If you need lots of slightly different expressions, try to extract a common parameter. A library of regular expressions: http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx
So yes, you have to add a method for each regular expression. The overhead is minimal, while it allows you to give the regex a name (not to be underestimated), a default message (handy) and the ability to reuse it a various places, without duplicating the regex itself over and over.

A: I got it to work like this:

$.validator.addMethod(
    "regex",
    function(value, element, regexp) {
        return this.optional(element) || regexp.test(value);
    },
    "Please check your input."
);

$(function () {
    $('#uiEmailAdress').focus();
    $('#NewsletterForm').validate({
        rules: {
            uiEmailAdress:{
                required: true,
                email: true,
                minlength: 5
            },
            uiConfirmEmailAdress:{
                required: true,
                email: true,
                equalTo: '#uiEmailAdress'
            },
            DDLanguage:{
                required: true
            },
            Testveld:{
                required: true,
                regex: /^[0-9]{3}$/
            }
        },
        messages: {
            uiEmailAdress:{
                required: 'Verplicht veld',
                email: 'Ongeldig emailadres',
                minlength: 'Minimum 5 charaters vereist'
            },
            uiConfirmEmailAdress:{
                required: 'Verplicht veld',
                email: 'Ongeldig emailadres',
                equalTo: 'Veld is niet gelijk aan E-mailadres'
            },
            DDLanguage:{
                required: 'Verplicht veld'
            },
            Testveld:{
                required: 'Verplicht veld',
                regex: '_REGEX'
            }
        }
    });
});

Make sure that the regex is between / :-)

A: You may use pattern defined in the additional-methods.js file. Note that this additional-methods.js file must be included after jQuery Validate dependency, then you can just use

$("#frm").validate({
    rules: {
        Textbox: {
            pattern: /^[a-zA-Z'.\s]{1,40}$/
        },
    },
    messages: {
        Textbox: {
            pattern: 'The Textbox string format is invalid'
        }
    }
});

<form id="frm" method="get" action="">
    <fieldset>

            Textbox
            <input id="Textbox" name="Textbox" type="text">

    </fieldset>
</form>

A:     $.validator.methods.checkEmail = function( value, element ) {
        return this.optional( element ) || /[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]+/.test( value );
    }

    $("#myForm").validate({
        rules: {
            email: {
                required: true,
                checkEmail: true
            }
        },
        messages: {
            email: "incorrect email"
        }
    });

A: Have you tried this??
$("Textbox").rules("add", { regex: "^[a-zA-Z'.\\s]{1,40}$", messages: { regex: "The text is invalid..." } })

Note: make sure to escape all the "\" of ur regex by adding another "\" in front of them else the regex wont work as expected.

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text:
San Blas Islands | Panama City | Bocas del Toro
-Scroll down past the Map to see our Panama Itineraries-
Panama is known as the "Crossroads of the Americas" due to its privileged position between North and South America. The country is famous for the Panama Canal, but the real beauty and draw of this country is revealed only to travellers willing to explore further. The meaning of the name Panama is describe as 'abundance of fish, trees and butterflies' and reflects the country's reputation as a paradise for water enthusiasts and eco-tourists alike. Panama's geography as an isthmus connecting continents make its flora and fauna incredibly diverse.
From the modern Panama City you can glimpse the past in the UNESCO listed old city, and the ruins of the original colonial town. In the north explore the adventure capital of Boquete which offers lush jungles, whitewater rafting, zip lining and rock climbing. The coffee growing capital of Panama is in the Chiriquí highlands, home to Volcan Baru, the highest point in the country. Visit the many stunning beaches and marine reserves from the Caribbean Islands of San Blas or the UNESCO listed Coiba National Park on the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Did You Know…a Panama canal was first mentioned in 1534? It would be almost 400 years until becoming reality when the Panama Canal opened in 1914.
Panama Destination Highlights
Panama City & Panama Canal
~We recommend 2 days to explore Panama City & the Panama Canal~
Panama City is much more than just a fantastic place to see the Panama Canal. It is a mix of modern skyscrapers, culture, coastline and a UNESCO Heritage old city and ruins of the original Spanish colony.
The capital is situated on the Pacific Ocean and we suggest spending time here on arrival – at least one full day to explore the city and a day learning about and visiting one of the key visitor centres along the Panama Canal.
~We recommend 3 days to explore the San Blas Islands~
Panama has some stunning island paradises well worth a visit. The Caribbean San Blas Islands are an archipelago off of Panama's Caribbean coast. The islands are a wilderness of sandy coral islands enclosed by turquoise sea.
San Blas is an independent indigenous territory within the Republic of Panama. The Kuna people (or Guna) are one of the best preserved indigenous tribes in all the Americas and a key part of this unique visit.
You will explore only a few of the many hundreds of islands and islets of the archipelago. The lodges are all run by a local Kuna family and all only have a few bungalows, so you will enjoy a high degree of privacy on your island. The meals served on San Blas traditionally feature fresh local seafood from fish, prawns, lobster to squids and mussels – you will find everything on your plate. This beach paradise destination is perfect for travellers want a unique beach holiday experience.
~We recommend 3 to 5 days to explore the Bocas del Toro Region~
The Bocas del Toro province of Panama is on the Caribbean coast bordering Costa Rica. The tropical jungle, beaches and marine reserves make this area one of the most popular destinations in Panama for tourists.
An island just off the coast, Bocas del Toro offers tracks through the jungle and visits to indigenous communities as well as the first ever Marine National Reserve in the country – Islas Bastamientos National Marine Park. The park encompasses forests, mangroves and coastline and protects monkeys, sloths, turtles, caimans, crocodiles and many more reptiles and amphibians.
Nature – Jungle & Coast
~We recommend 3 to 5 days to explore Panama's natural wonders~
Nature lovers should explore the rainforest, jungles and endless coastline of Panama. Base yourself for a few days in Boquete, David or the small surfing village of Santa Catalina and see the natural wonders of the country. Cloud forests, black sand beaches metres away from lush jungle and wildlife abound in many corners of the country.
There are two UNESCO listed National Parks in Panama with very distinct geography and climates. The Amistad National Park, which covers areas of both Costa Rica and Panama, is in the north east of the country and is the home land of multiple indigenous groups. The wildlife includes five kinds of big cats – pumas, ocelots, margay, jaguars and jaguarundis. There are also over 600 species of birds.
The remote Coiba National Park and Special Marine Protection Area is a region off the Pacific west coast of Panama and includes 38 smaller islands in the Gulf of Chiriqui. It is the last refuge for many threatened animals like the crested eagle. The island was formerly a penal colony but the prison was officially closed in 2004. The area provides protection to humpback whales, pilot whales, killer whales, dolphins, turtles, manta rays, marlins and more. In total there are over 760 species of marine fishes and 33 species of sharks in the area. For travellers interested in diving or exploring Coiba, we can add on 2 or 3 days in Santa Catalina to one of the itineraries below.
Interactive Panama Map
Panama Experiences
Beaches | Marine Reserves| Nature | Canal
Visiting:
Boca Chica, Bocas del Toro, Boquete, Panama Canal, Panama City
Panama Express
Nature | Beaches | Panama Canal
Bocas del Toro, Boquete, Panama Canal, Panama City
Caribbean Paradise
Panama's San Blas Islands
Panama Canal, Panama City, San Blas Islands

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Blanket recruitment of participants via University email is prohibited. To recruit participants for your study, please follow instructions here.
If you would like to participate in any of the following research studies, please be sure to review the eligibility criteria for each study prior to contacting the researcher.
Study Summary: The purpose of the study is to better understand cultural competency among doctoral-level students, educators, supervisors, as well as practicing psychologists. I am specifically exploring competence in working with transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals, but you need not have specific experience working with this population in order to participate in my study.
This study is open to participants who are doctoral-level students, educators, supervisors, and practicing psychologists, from Ph.D. and Psy.D. clinical and counseling psychology programs. Graduate students who are participating must be enrolled in programs accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). Participants must also be fluent in English.
Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and confidential and you have the right to withdraw at any time. Upon participating, you will have the opportunity to be entered into a raffle to receive one of two $25 Tango gift cards by entering your email address. These surveys should take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete.
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The male participants (Middle Eastern or Asian) must be living in the United States since they were at least 15 years old.
The male participants must be married to a Western woman (American-European) for at least 5 years.
The female participants must be married to an Eastern man for least 5 years.
Either the male, female, or both members (separately) of the intermarriage can participate in the study.
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Study Summary: This study is exploring the role that attachment to biological parents has on severity of substance use. I am looking for participants who are both adopted and have struggled/are struggling with substance abuse issues. They do not need to have met and/or have a relationship with their biological parent(s) to participate. They must be 18y/o or older. The process consists of completing a questionnaire, which should take no more than a total of 25 minutes total.
Researcher(s) Name(s): Wayne "Bobby" Nguyen, M.A. and Katie McGovern, Ph.D.
Study Summary: The present study examines the impact and lived experiences of racial microaggressions on students of color or non-white students in PsyD programs.
Racial microaggressions (RMAs) are brief and commonplace daily indignities that communicate hostile and derogatory racial slights and insults toward people of color. The study takes about 15 minutes to complete.
The target population includes students who self-identify as a person of color, who is in their second year or above of graduate study in an APA-accredited PsyD program in California.
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To participate in this study, you must be 18 years old or older, an Alliant International University student and you must be able to speak, read, and write in the English language.
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Study Summary: Greetings! My name is Dr. Michael Ellis, and I am a professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany. I, along with my colleagues Drs. Rodney Goodyear and Carol Falender, am inviting you to participate in a study regarding your role as a clinical supervisor. Adequate supervision is a critical component to counselor and therapist development, and client outcomes. With guidelines in place specifically for clinical supervision, we aim to assess supervisors' confidence in implementing the competencies set forth in these guidelines. The goal of this study is to develop and test a new measure for clinical supervisors (i.e., the Clinical Supervision Self-Assessment Scale-CSSAS).
We need a minimum of 300 participants, so we really need your help.
To help us get a diverse sample of over 300 clinical supervisors, please personally ask at least 5 (five) of your colleagues who are clinical supervisors to participate. This is the best way to get folks to participate—a personal invitation.
The measure (52 items), plus the demographic questions, takes approximately 15 minutes or less to complete (honestly!).
We require that all items be answered with the exception of demographic questions. This will help with assessing the psychometric properties of the measure.
Participation in this study is completely voluntary and confidential. We do not collect personal identifying information.
Under new Federal guidelines, this study qualifies as exempt research because there is no more than minimal risk associated with participation in this study.
Once at the website, you will be asked to enter the password cssas1. Instructions on the website will help you navigate through the easy-to-complete research materials.
If you have any questions about the research, please do not hesitate to contact the principle investigator, Michael Ellis, at the address below.
This study has been approved by the University at Albany Institutional Review Board. If you have any questions concerning your rights as a research participant that have not been answered by the investigator or if you wish to report any concerns about the study, you may contact the University at Albany Office of Research Compliance at 800-365-9139 or orc@uamail.albany.edu.
My colleagues (i.e., Rod Goodyear and Carol Falender) and I thank you for your cooperation and participation in this research study; it is greatly appreciated!
Study Summary: In clinical violence risk assessments, clinicians can be subjected to unfair punishments when a patient evaluated as low-risk is released from custody and commits a violent act. When review boards evaluate the clinician's assessment, they are vulnerable to the effects of hindsight bias, an overestimate of what the initial clinician could or should have foreseen when conducting the evaluation. The study investigates moderating factors (outcome severity- whether the victim was injured or killed) influencing the impact of the hindsight bias as well as the potential impact of various debiasing techniques that may reduce the influence of the bias, ensuring fairer practices for clinicians.
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Study Summary: The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement tool based on the International Test Commission (2017) Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Tests. This tool can be used to evaluate the extent to which a given test adaptation adheres to the guidelines. The initial phase of this study consists of expert review and pilot test of the X-CAGAM. After the expert review and pilot phases of this study are completed, modifications to the vignettes and X-CAGAM will be made. Next, a larger sample of 100-200 psychologists and psychology graduate students who vary in their experience with cross-cultural research will also be asked to use the X-CAGAM to rate the vignettes. Participants will evaluate one of the three vignettes by applying the X-CAGAM. Using the data generated from their responses, analyses will be conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the X-CAGAM, including its reliability and validity. X-CAGAM performance comparisons will also be made between participants with different background research experiences and professional specializations. These results will allow the researcher to make judgments about the utility of this measure for evaluating cross-cultural test adaptations in practice.


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text:
Information about the HST/PST new housing transitional rules
Posted on Jan 10, 2013 in
The province will transition back to the Provincial Sales Tax (PST), which will replace the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), on April 1, 2013. Until then, the province has transitional rules for new homes which took effect on April 1, 2012.
Note: This information is current to October 24, 2012 and has been verified with the Canada Revenue Agency, GST/HST Rulings Branch. However, we have been advised that the information could change depending on HST rulings to come.
Enhanced New Housing Rebate
Effective April 1, 2012, your clients may be eligible for a provincial enhanced New Housing Rebate if they buy, as their primary residence, priced up to $850,000:
• a new home together with land;
• a new home together with leased land;
• a new mobile home or float home;
• a new home bought through shares in a housing cooperative; or • a new home constructed or substantially renovated (more than
90%) by the owner builder.
Your clients may also be eligible for a grant (BC Ministry of
Fiance administered rebate) if they buy or build a secondary vacation or recreational home outside the Greater Vancouver and Capital Regional Districts.
Buyers of new homes will be eligible for a rebate of 71.43% of the provincial portion of the HST paid on the new home up to a maxi- mum rebate of $42,500. Homes priced at more than $850,000 will be eligible for a flat rebate of $42,500.
The GST/HST generally becomes payable on the earlier of the day on which ownership is transferred to the recipient and the day on which possession of the property is transferred to the recipient. (This is the day the tax is payable).
Agreements signed before April 1, 2012, with possession before April 1, 2012
If your client bought a presale residential property and they had an agreement dated before April 1, 2012 and they took ownership or possession before April 1, 2012, they would have paid the 12% HST and been eligible for a rebate of up to $26,250 on homes priced to a maximum of $525,000. Homes priced at more than $525,000 were eligible for a flat rebate of $26,250.
If your client buys a presale residential property and they have an agreement dated before April 1, 2012 and they take ownership or possession before April 1, 2013, they will pay the 12% HST and be eligible for a rebate of up to $42,500 on homes priced to a maximum of $850,000. Homes priced at more than $850,000 are eligible for a flat rebate of $42,500.
Agreements signed before April 1, 2012, with possession on or after April 1, 2013, but before April 1, 2015
If your client buys a presale residential property and they have
an agreement dated before April 1, 2012 and they take ownership or possession on or after April 1, 2013, they will not pay the 7% provincial portion of the HST. Instead, buyers will pay both the 5% GST and the 2% BC Transition Tax on the full home price. This 2% reflects an embedded PST builders pay on materials. If ownership and possession is on or after April 1, 2015 then the 2% tax is not applicable.
Agreements signed on or after April 1, 2012 and before April 1, 2013, with possession before
If your client buys a presale residential property and they have an agreement dated on or after April 1, 2012 and before April 1, 2013, and they take ownership and possession before April 1, 2013, they will pay the 12% HST and be eligible for a rebate of up to $42,500 on homes priced to a maximum of $850,000. Homes priced at more than $850,000 are eligible for a flat rebate of $42,500.
Agreements signed on or after April 1, 2012, with possession on or after April 1, 2013, but before April 1, 2015
If your client buys a presale residential property and they have an agreement dated on or after April 1, 2012, but the construction of the home commenced before April 1, 2013, and they take ownership and possession on or after April 1, 2013, they will not pay the 7% provincial portion of the HST. Instead, buyers will pay both the 5% GST and the 2% BC Transition Tax on the full home price until before April 1, 2015. This 2% reflects an embedded PST builders pay on materials. If ownership and possession is on or after April 1, 2015 then the 2% tax is not applicable.
Presales and Completed New Homes for Sale
If your client buys a presale or completed new residential property and they have an agreement dated on or after April 1, 2013, and they take ownership and possession on or after April 1, 2013, they will have to pay the 5% GST. They will also have to pay the 2% BC Transition Tax on the full home price, if the construction or substantial renovation of the new home is 10% or more completed as of April 1, 2013. If ownership and possession is on or after April 1, 2015 then the 2% tax is not applicable. This 2% reflects an embedded PST builders pay on materials.
The 12% HST will generally cease to apply to sales of real property (including residential real property) if ownership and possession of the property transfer on or after April 1, 2013.
The PST will not apply to sales of real property. However, the PST will apply to certain types of housing which, at the time of purchase are tangible personal property (e.g. a mobile home purchased without land) and where possession transfers on or after April 1, 2013. The PST will also apply to construction inputs that are used to improve real property on or after April 1, 2013.
Agreements signed on or before November 18, 2009, or construction began before July 1, 2010, with possession on or after April 1, 2013 (Double- straddling, grandparented)
Special transitional rules apply if your client has bought a presale residential property and they have an agreement dated on or before November 18, 2009, or construction began before July 1, 2010 (the HST start date in BC) and for which ownership and possession transfer on or after April 1, 2013 (the HST end date in BC). This is known as a double-straddling home sale. In this situation, your client will pay both the 5% GST and the 2% BC Transition Tax.
Agreements signed after November 18, 2009,
or construction began before July 1, 2010, with possession on or after April 1, 2013 (Double- straddling, non-grandparented)
Special transitional rules apply if your client has bought a presale residential property and they have an agreement dated after Novem- ber 18, 2009, and construction began before July 1, 2010 (the HST start date in BC) and for which ownership and possession transfer on or after April 1, 2013 (the HST end date in BC). This is known as a double-straddling home sale. In this situation, your client will pay both the 5% GST and the 2% BC Transition Tax. However, the 2% tax will not apply where construction was substantially completed before July 1, 2010 and the PST Transitional New Housing Rebate was not claimed by February 17, 2012.
All the same rules apply to recreational property that apply to other residential property. Your clients may be eligible for a provincial grant if they buy or build a secondary vacation or recreational home outside the Metro Vancouver and Capital Regional Districts.
HST paid on land
For owner-built homes where the HST was paid on the land, the owner may be eligible for a rebate on qualifying construction expenses (including land), up to a maximum of $42,500. There will be no phase-out of this rebate, such that owner-built homes with qualifying construction expenses over $850,000 will qualify for the maximum rebate of $42,500.
No HST paid on land
Where the HST was not paid on the land, the owner will be entitled to a new housing rebate on qualifying construction expenses only (which would not include land), up to a maximum rebate amount of $28,475 (for example 67% of $42,500).
Enhanced New Rental Housing Rebate
There is an enhanced provincial New Rental Housing Rebate. If your clients construct or substantially renovate a residential property to rent to tenants, your clients are eligible for a rebate up to $42,500
on units priced up to $850,000. There is a flat rebate of $42,500 for units priced above $850,000.
The first use of the home must be by a renter of the unit or as a primary residence by the owner for at least one year. Eligible units include:
• a detached, attached, condominium apartment or duplexes, with or without a legal secondary suite;
• a mobile or float home;
• units in a multiple unit building including long-term care
residential facilities; or
• the land component of a single-unit or multiple-unit housing,
where the land is leased or is a housing cooperative.
If your client buys a new apartment which is not their principal
residence and they don't rent it, for example, if strata bylaws prohibit rentals, or your clients buy a new apartment to use on weekends, the unit is not eligible for the New Rental Housing Rebate.
But, if you have a client who buys a new rental apartment building so long as they rent all of the units, they will be eligible for a New Rental Housing Rebate for each unit up to a maximum rebate of $42,500 per unit.
If your client builds or substantially renovates rental property, they will be required to self-assess and pay the HST on or after April 1, 2012 and before April 1, 2013.
• November 18, 2009 – Date the transition rules from PST to HST came into effect.
• July 1, 2010 – Date the HST came into effect in BC.
• April 1, 2012 – Date the HST to PST transitional rules come
into effect. The enhanced HST rebate comes into effect.
• April 1, 2013 – HST end date. GST on new homes is back in effect, together with the 2% BC Transition Tax (where applicable).
• April 1, 2015 – Date the 2% BC Transition Tax ends.
• Visit: www.pstinbc.ca
• Read HST Notice #12: www.pstinbc.ca/media/2012_housing_
rules_FEB.pdf
• Read HST Notice #13 - Recreational Property: www.rev.gov.
bc.ca/documents_library/notices/HST_Notice_013.pdf
• Visit BCREA's web site for HST/PST information at: www.
bcrea.bc.ca/government-relations/hst-pst-resources
• Phone the Canada Revenue Agency GST/HST ruling line at:
• Phone the BC Ministry of Finance with questions about the 2% BC Transition Tax at: 1.877.388.4440
If you have questions, please contact Harriet Permut, Manager, Government Relations at: hpermut@rebgv.org
• BC Ministry of Finance, Tax Information Notice. HST Notice #12, February 17, 2012.
• BC Ministry of Finance, Tax Information Notice. HST Notice #13, June 2012.
• Canada Revenue Agency, HST ruling line at 1.800.959.8287


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Tony Blair's spy chief who wrongly claimed Iraq had WMDs making millions
Sir John Scarlett was head of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) when former Prime Minister Blair used the now infamous 'dodgy dossier' on Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to claim the Iraqi leader could launch an attack on Britain within 45 minutes.
Critics of the spy chief say he let Blair's spin-doctor Alistair Campbell pressure him into "sexing up" the document.
Since leaving the civil service, Scarlett has worked for a string of multinational corporations, including PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and BP, earning hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Blair promoted Scarlett to the head of MI6 in 2004, a year after the invasion of Iraq, in a move many saw as a reward for his assistance in justifying the Iraq War.
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Evaluation for what purpose? Findings from two stakeholder groups
Wond, Tracey 2018. Evaluation for what purpose? Findings from two stakeholder groups. in: Springer Singapore.
Wond, Tracey
A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support good governance and policy development. As the expectations for program evaluation from policymakers have evolved, so too has evaluation practice and a great deal of experimentalism has ensued. There is a risk that these developments and the complexity inherent in them, may lead to conflicting expectations about why program evaluation is done, or even a loss of purpose. This prompts the meso-level analysis of two types of stakeholders in a governance network, explored in this chapter. This chapter presents the findings of an ongoing study which explores the perceptions of program evaluators and policy implementers towards the purpose of evidence. The findings suggest that program evaluators and policy implementers have divergent expectations of why and how evaluation data might be used. The findings suggest that program evaluators aspire to support change and enhance the policy domains they serve, whereas policy implementers perceive program evaluation as serving a more governance-/management-orientated role. The chapter demonstrates the complexity of both program evaluation and policy and may have implications for the twin pillars of governance and responsibility at the heart of the book. If governance and responsibility are the twin pillars of sustainability then the complex networks of relationships, expectations, values, and outcomes may need to be considered. The findings also have implications for evaluation commissioners and practitioners, demonstrating the need for the purpose and expectations of program evaluation to be agreed early. The use of program evaluation as a symbolic, aesthetic or structural mechanism also emerges, prompting opportunity for further research, for instance, to explore legitimacy and program evaluation.
A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support good governance and policy development. As the expectations for program evaluation from policymakers have evolved, so too has evaluation practice and a great deal of experimentalism has ensued. There is a risk that these developments and the complexity inherent in them, may lead to conflicting expectations about why program evaluation is done, or even a loss of purpose. This prompts the meso-level analysis of two types of stakeholders in a governance network, explored in this chapter. This chapter presents the findings of an ongoing study which explores the perceptions of program evaluators and policy implementers towards the purpose of evidence.
The findings suggest that program evaluators and policy implementers have divergent expectations of why and how evaluation data might be used. The findings suggest that program evaluators aspire to support change and enhance the policy domains they serve, whereas policy implementers perceive program evaluation as serving a more governance-/management-orientated role.
The chapter demonstrates the complexity of both program evaluation and policy and may have implications for the twin pillars of governance and responsibility at the heart of the book. If governance and responsibility are the twin pillars of sustainability then the complex networks of relationships, expectations, values, and outcomes may need to be considered. The findings also have implications for evaluation commissioners and practitioners, demonstrating the need for the purpose and expectations of program evaluation to be agreed early. The use of program evaluation as a symbolic, aesthetic or structural mechanism also emerges, prompting opportunity for further research, for instance, to explore legitimacy and program evaluation.
evaluation; misevaluation; Public sector; Governance
Springer Singapore
TW3 Evaluation purpose book ch 2018.pdf
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Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective
Brown, Cathy, Hooley, Tristram and Wond, Tracey 2021. Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1937940
The role and impact of executive coaching in the Maltese public sector
Borg Ellul, Duncan and Wond, Tracey 2020. The role and impact of executive coaching in the Maltese public sector. International Journal of Public Leadership. 16 (2), pp. 145-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-11-2019-0075
Building career capital: Helping workers to enhance career mobility in uncertain times
Wond, Tracey and Brown, Cathy 2019. Building career capital: Helping workers to enhance career mobility in uncertain times. Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integretion. https://doi.org/10.18290/pepsi-2019-0001
Building career mobility: A critical exploration of career capital
Brown, Cathy and Wond, Tracey 2018. Building career mobility: A critical exploration of career capital. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4109
Career capital: Building our mobility within an evolving world of work.
Brown, Cathy and Wond, Tracey 2018. Career capital: Building our mobility within an evolving world of work. Career Matters.
Key skills and training needs of the D2N2 low carbon and environmental goods and services (LCEGS) sector
Paterson, Fred, Baranova, Polina, Neary, S., Hanson, Jill, Clarke, Lewis, Wond, Tracey, Lee, Amanda, Gill, J., Gallotta, Bruno, Eisen, Matthew and Nesterova, Iana 2018. Key skills and training needs of the D2N2 low carbon and environmental goods and services (LCEGS) sector. University of Derby.
Extending time – Extended benefits
Wond, Tracey and Macaulay, Michael 2011. Extending time – Extended benefits. Public Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2010.536059
Evaluating local implementation: An evidence based approach.
Wond, Tracey and Macaulay, Michael 2010. Evaluating local implementation: An evidence based approach. Policy and Society. https://doi.org//10.1016/j.polsoc.2010.03.008
Measuring the value of placements to employers: A cost-benefit approach
Wond, Tracey and Rambukwella, Shan 2018. Measuring the value of placements to employers: A cost-benefit approach. Industry and Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422218759726
Employee as Student Toolkit
Wond, Tracey, Nesterova, Iana, Rambukwella, Shan and Kelleher, Orla 2016. Employee as Student Toolkit.
Postgraduate Placement Toolkit
Wond, Tracey, Rambukwella, Shan, Nesterova, Iana and Kelleher, Orla 2016. Postgraduate Placement Toolkit.
Trust matters: Distrust in an external evaluation of a public sector program
Wond, Tracey 2016. Trust matters: Distrust in an external evaluation of a public sector program. International Journal of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2015.1126732
Police Officers with degrees: the plan, challenges and (missing) evidence
Wond, Tracey 2015. Police Officers with degrees: the plan, challenges and (missing) evidence. CoPaCC.


I'm using a program that installs ODBC drivers before it installs itself. When it tries to load mdac 2.1, it fails. I get "Acmsetup caused invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll...". I tried installing a newer version of mdac, but got the same error. This is a windows 95 machine, and DOES NOT have microsoft office on it.
so i guess my question is, how do i install ODBC correctly, without installing MS Office.
If you have a CD-ROM drive, try disabling DMA access.
Double-click the System icon, and then click the Device Manager tab.
Select View Devices By Type and click the plus sign to the left of CDROM.
Click the CD-ROM drive you want to change, and then click Properties.
In the CD-ROM Drive Properties dialog box, click the Settings tab.
In Settings, clear the DMA check box. Click OK.
Close the System Properties window, restart the computer, and then try installing.
If this does not solve your problem, you may need to disable DMA for the Disk drive(s) too following the same steps.
Then delete the folder created during the installation of the program you're installing.
I have no freakin' clue what this guy was talking about!!
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp? (the question mark is part of the url). Choose ODBC 3.0 from Product Name.


A few weeks ago, I argued that awareness is overrated — even though it feels good to help spread information about a given injustice or threat, it doesn't always do much to change people's behavior in a productive way, and can actually have negative consequences if you're not careful about how you frame the awareness-raising message in question. A new Psychological Science study from Stanford researchers provides a useful example.
The study involved giving a group of white participants information about the United States' striking racial disparities when it comes to incarceration and then seeing how this information affected their views on relevant issues.
Stanford psychology researchers Rebecca Hetey and Jennifer Eberhardt found that when white people were told about these racial disparities, they reported being more afraid of crime and more likely to support the kinds of punitive policies that exacerbate the racial disparities.
"Most people likely assume this must be due to rising crime rates, but the explosion in the prison population is better explained by harsh criminal justice policies," said Hetey, a postdoctoral scholar and the lead author on the study.
I'm sure I've done plenty of tweeting and Facebook-ing on this particular issue; even when you know you're engaging in lazy online slacktivism, it still feels good to be on the right side of something, and to display your righteousness to your (usually like-minded) friends. But we should acknowledge that there's a difference between spreading awareness and actually helping to solve a problem.


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Flyers must turn on afterburners to defeat Penguins
Jeff Carter and Michael Handzus scored in opening minutes of the third period and the Philadelphia Flyers made a late lead hold up this time, beating Pittsburgh 6-3 on Saturday night in a feisty rematch of the Penguins' overtime victory four nights before.
Simon Gagne scored his NHL-leading 19th and 20th goals of the season as Philadelphia improved to a league-best 10-1-1 on the road after dropping its previous three games, including successive home overtime losses to the Penguins on Wednesday and Atlanta on Friday. Gagne also assisted on Mike Knuble's empty-net goal.
Mike Richards also scored for the Flyers. Sidney Crosby scored his 10th goal for Pittsburgh, and Erik Christensen and Ziggy Palffy added goals.
Blues 3, Red Wings 2
At Detroit, Mike Sillinger and Doug Weight scored in the third period to lead St. Louis.
Jamal Mayers also scored to help the Blues win their second straight after losing 11 in a row. Curtis Sanford made 33 saves in the victory, St. Louis' first over Detroit in nine games (0-7-1) since Oct. 29, 2003.
Mikael Samuelsson and Brendan Shanahan scored for Detroit, which lost its fourth straight.
Maple Leafs 5, Thrashers 1
At Toronto, Alexei Ponikarovsky scored twice and had an assist to help the Maple Leafs beat Atlanta for their season-high fourth straight victory.
Bryan McCabe added a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs, who also beat Atlanta 9-1 in a fight-filled rout on Oct. 14.
Alexander Steen and Nik Antropov also scored for Toronto, and Ed Belfour made 31 saves. Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 14th goal for the Thrashers.
Senators 5, Devils 4
At Ottawa, Mike Fisher scored twice and backup goalie Ray Emery made 25 saves for the Senators.
Chris Neil, Jason Spezza and Brian McGrattan also scored.
John Madden, Grant Marshall, Barry Tallackson and Brian Gionta also scored for the Devils.
Sabres 3, Bruins 2
At Boston, Henrik Tallinder scored with 4:21 left for Buffalo, firing a shot from the point that beat goalie Andrew Raycroft inside the left post.
With the victory, Buffalo won its season-high third straight game and sent the Bruins to their fifth consecutive loss.
Daniel Briere and Ales Kotalik also scored for Buffalo, and Mika Noronen made 20 saves in his first start of the season. Joe Thornton and P.J. Axelsson scored for Boston, 1-8-1 in Northeast Division games.
Rangers 4, Hurricanes 3
At New York, Michael Nylander had a goal and three assists to help the Rangers beat Carolina to split a home-and-home series.
Martin Straka, Petr Prucha and Michal Rozsival also scored and Jaromir Jagr had three assists New York, coming off a 5-1 road loss to the Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Eric Staal, Niklas Nordgren and Justin Williams scored for Carolina.
Capitals 5, Canadiens 1
At Montreal, Brian Sutherby scored twice and Olaf Kolzig made 43 saves, leading Washington past Montreal.
Sutherby, Brian Willsie, Brooks Laich and Chris Clark also scored for the Capitals. Michael Ryder scored his team-leading ninth goal for Montreal.
Blackhawks 4, Oilers 3
In Alberta, Edmonton native Rene Bourque scored twice and backup goalie Craig Anderson made 33 saves to help Chicago complete a two-game Alberta sweep.
Mark Bell and Martin Lapointe also scored for Chicago, which ended Calgary's eight-game winning streak Friday night with a 5-2 victory.
The surging Blackhawks squad have won five of six on their road trip.
Ales Hemsky, Jarret Stoll and Marty Reasoner scored for the Oilers.
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Napoli see off local rivals Salernitana to go 12 points clear at top of Serie A
SSC Napoli on Saturday further extended their grip on the Serie A title race by beating local rivals US Salernitana 1919 2-0 to temporarily move 12 points ahead of the chasing pack. Goals from Giovanni di Lorenzo and Victor Osimhen immediately either side of halftime made sure that Napoli would be at least nine points clear at the halfway point of the season after a straight-forward win in soaking Salerno. Luciano Spalletti's side now have to wait until their closest rivals AC Milan take on UEFA Champions League-chasing SS Lazio in Rome tomorrow to know just how far in front they would
Korda playing catch-up in prodigious family
Sebastian Korda says he is "the worst athlete" in his high-achieving sporting family, but with a little help from tennis legend Andre Agassi the rising American is working hard to change the dynamic. The 22-year-old on Friday stunned two-time losing finalist and seventh seed Daniil Medvedev at the Australian Open, weeks after pushing Novak Djokovic to the limit in the Adelaide International final. Known as Sebi, his composed performances reflect what has been evident for some time — he is on the rise, and with plenty to live up to in the Korda family. His father, Petr, is a former world No. 2
Top seed Swiatek, Gauff ousted
POLEAXED: Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina swept past last year's French Open and US Open winner Iga Swiatek at a stunned Rod Laver Arena Top seed Iga Swiatek and a tearful Coco Gauff both crashed out in straight sets in the round-of-16 yesterday on another day of shocks at the Australian Open, while Taiwan's Chan Hao-ching advanced to the third round of the women's doubles. Swiatek's defeat to Elena Rybakina makes it the first Grand Slam in the Open era — since 1968 — to lose the top two seeds in the men's and women's draws before the quarter-finals. There was no such trouble for Jessica Pegula, as the American third seed surged into the last eight with a 7-5, 6-2 win over former French Open
Lakers rally to stun Trail Blazers
FIGHTBACK SUNDAY: The remarkable reversal was just one comeback on a night that saw the Brooklyn Nets beat NBA champions the Golden State Warriors LeBron James on Sunday scored 20 of his 37 points in the second half as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 25-point halftime deficit to stun the Portland Trail Blazers 121-112. The Lakers, who scored just 13 points to Portland's 45 in the second quarter, roared back to become the first team to win a game in which they lost a quarter by 30 or more points since the Boston Celtics against the Buffalo Braves in 1972. The remarkable reversal was just one dramatic comeback on a night that saw the Brooklyn Nets — led by 38 points from an inspired
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Pelosi Holds Line for Obama Budget
By Steven T. Dennis
Posted April 3, 2009 at 5:43pm
In the battle of the budget, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has emerged as the chief defender of President Barack Obama's priorities against a more reluctant Senate.
Although Pelosi cut deals with her party's moderates that slightly rein in Obama's ambitions, the House budget passed last week hews more closely to the president's, slicing just $7 billion relative to the Senate's $15 billion haircut.
More importantly, Pelosi has embraced the hardball tactic of blocking Republicans from filibustering health care — Obama's top priority.
Pelosi has repeatedly made it clear that she intends to demand reconciliation instructions for health care in negotiations with the Senate, and she has dismissed complaints from Republicans and some Democrats as an inside Washington fight over process.
"What does it mean to the American people? By one process or another, we are going to get them what they want, and that is quality health care that is affordable and accessible to them,— Pelosi told PBS in an interview last week.
Senate Democrats appear to be moving toward accepting Pelosi's position on reconciliation for health care in a final budget deal, despite the misgivings of senior Senators, including Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.).
Senators as well as Pelosi are looking at using the rules as a "last resort— and say they still hope for a bipartisan deal.
But the high-stakes battle comes as Republicans have been digging in against one of Pelosi's priorities — giving every American the option of a public health insurance plan like Medicare alongside private plans.
"I believe it should have a public option in it for it to really be substantial,— Pelosi said of the health care bill. "I think the best prospect for that to happen is to do it under reconciliation.—
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), while supportive of the Obama agenda, has less control of his chamber as he is faced with a group of independent-minded centrist Democrats less easily controlled than the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs in the House.
While the highly regulated House floor fight on the budget lacked drama because only substitutes were made in order, the free-form Senate vote-a-rama showed that some parts of Obama's agenda face a stiff headwind in that chamber.
Although only two Democratic Senators voted against the budget, Obama's plan for a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions in particular appears to be in trouble, with about 20 Democrats regularly defecting to support Republican amendments. Pelosi had already cut her own deal with Blue Dogs, promising not to use reconciliation rules for climate change legislation.
But Pelosi also made clear she isn't going slow on that issue, either, saying she plans to move a climate bill this year regardless of where the Senate is and whether Republicans sign on — and despite some misgivings in her own Caucus.
Other Obama proposals also received thumbs-down votes from the Senate in the nonbinding document, including his plans for keeping the estate tax at 2009 levels and limiting some tax deductions for the rich to pay for health care.
But the core of Obama's budget — and its focus on energy, health and education — survived both chambers, as substantive amendments aimed at slashing spending and taxes failed.
Presuming an agreement on reconciliation, Democrats could quickly agree on a budget after the Easter recess, with the House starting to move its appropriations bills in May.


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