Urban Decay Nocturnal Shadow Box ($29.00 for 0.12 oz.) includes twelve eyeshadows in a slim, cardboard palette with a dual-ended eye brush. The shades include "eight must-haves" from the permanent line along with "four exclusives from past sets." I liked the palette overall; it was more consistent with the brand's permanent range with respect to quality, though shades like Fireball (not as pigmented as the permanent version), Midnight Cowboy Rides Again (glitter fallout), and Heroine (sheer) could be better. The eyeshadows were, overall, pigmented, long-wearing (seven to eight hours), and blendable. It wasn't hard to use them together, and I didn't feel like it was a struggle to apply and blend them out.
If you've picked up any Urban Decay palettes in the last couple of years, this palette might be totally redundant. I think that this palette is most suitable for someone looking to try the brand's formula or likes this specific color combination and would like it for traveling. It's a smaller palette, though it is thicker than you'd expect as each eyeshadow only contains 0.01 oz. (a full-sized Urban Decay eyeshadow contains 0.05 oz.). It's still a value-packed palette compared to purchasing individual shades, but it is not quite the deal that some of the larger palettes (like Afterdark, Naked, etc.) are. The palette is exclusive to Ulta and should launch today (if it hasn't yet!) online, and it will be available in stores on January 22nd.
ABC Gum is a light-medium peachy orange with warm undertones and a matte finish. It had good color payoff with a smooth, sliky texture that was a touch dusty in the pan but applied well and did not look dry or dusty on the lid. This shade lasted for seven and a half hours on me.
Becca Ombre Nudes #1 (PiP, ) (100% similar).
bareMinerals Stealth (PiP, ) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Sugarpill Heart-Shaped Cookie (PiP, $13.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Sephora Magnolia (PiP, ) is darker (95% similar).
Urban Decay Framed (LE, $19.00) is cooler, lower quality (95% similar).
Zoeva Here to Stay (PiP, ) is darker (95% similar).
Estee Lauder Uninhibited (P, $25.00) is lighter (95% similar).
Talc, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol. May contain: Ci 77491/77492/77499 (Iron Oxides), Ci 75470 (Carmine).
Midnight Cowboy Rides Again is a rosy champagne with warmer undertones and silver micro-glitter over a more metallic finish. It had semi-opaque color coverage with a looser consistency in the pan, so there was some fallout (both powder and glitter) during application and later on during wear (just glitter). The underlying color wore for nearly eight hours on me.
MAC Love Connection #1 (P, $21.00) is cooler (95% similar).
MAC Darling Coquette (LE, $32.50) is cooler (95% similar).
Clinique Lucky Penny (PiP, $15.00) is warmer (95% similar).
Chanel Complice (P, $29.50) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Urban Decay Sin (DC, $20.00) is less shimmery (90% similar).
MAC Shifting Sands (LE, $32.50) is darker (90% similar).
MAC Snow Season (LE, $21.00) is lighter, cooler (85% similar).
MAC Trophy (LE, $16.50) is less shimmery (90% similar).
MAC Sweet Illusion (LE, $20.00) is more shimmery, lighter (80% similar).
Talc, Polyethylene Terephthalate, Dimethicone, Zinc Stearate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Silica, Polyurethane-11, Tin Oxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol. May contain: Ci 77019 (Mica), Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Ci 77491/77492/77499 (Iron Oxides), Ci 77742 (Manganese Violet), Ci 75470 (Carmine).
Baby is a soft, medium brown with warm undertones and a metallic sheen. It had good pigmentation with a soft, blendable texture that was a touch dusty but was still easy to apply and did not look dry on the skin. It wore well for eight hours on me.
MAC Pure Bred #2 (LE, $21.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Marc Jacobs Beauty The Starlet #2 (PiP, ) is lighter (95% similar).
Too Faced Cheers! (LE, $16.00) is lighter (95% similar).
Tarte Rose Golden Rings (LE, ) is lighter (95% similar).
Marc Jacobs Beauty The Enigma #7 (PiP, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Makeup Geek Starry Eyed (P, $9.99) is lighter (95% similar).
Colour Pop Can't Stop (LE, $5.00) is more shimmery, darker (95% similar).
bareMinerals Bare Skin (LE, ) is darker (90% similar).
Too Faced Christmas Blend (LE, $16.00) is less shimmery (90% similar).
Inglot J409 Cosmic Glow (LE, $25.00) is cooler (90% similar).
Half Baked is a light-medium golden copper with warm undertones and a metallic finish. The color payoff was fantastic, while the texture felt soft, lightly powdery (almost like it wasn't pressed firmly enough in the pan) but blended out well and applied evenly to bare skin. This shade started to fade after eight hours of wear.
Anastasia Amber (P, $12.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Anastasia Penny (P, $12.00) is less shimmery, darker (95% similar).
Sleek MakeUP Sunset #10 (PiP, $9.99) is darker, brighter (95% similar).
LORAC Amber (LE, $19.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
MAC Exquisite Ego #2 (LE, $21.00) is darker, warmer (95% similar).
Marc Jacobs Beauty The Dreamer #2 (PiP, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
MAC Creative Copper (PiP, $17.00) is darker (85% similar).
Tarte Twinkle Lights (LE, ) is cooler (90% similar).
Smashbox Ambient (PiP, ) is darker (90% similar).
Riff is a medium orange-brown with flecks of gold pearl over a matte finish. It had good color coverage with a soft, silky consistency that wasn't too soft or too firm in the pan, so it applied evenly and smoothly to the skin while remaining blendable. The color started to fade after eight hours on me. The permanent version of this shade is better, though.
Natasha Denona Teak (PiP, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
NARS Surabaya I (PiP, $19.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Make Up For Ever M664 Fawn (DC, $21.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Anastasia Bengal (P, $12.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Anastasia Caramel (P, $12.00) is warmer (95% similar).
Sephora + Pantone Universe Chutney (LE, ) is darker (95% similar).
Urban Decay Dormouse (LE, $19.00) is lighter (90% similar).
Inglot #122R Middle (PiP, $6.00) is darker, brighter (90% similar).
Sephora Clay (LE, ) is darker (95% similar).
Too Faced City Lights (LE, $16.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Delete is a deep, subtly red-tinted brown with neutral-to-warm undertones and a matte finish. It had intense color payoff paired with a soft, smooth texture that was finely-milled and easy to blend out on the skin. I noticed fading after eight hours of wear.
Tarte Multi-Tasker (LE, ) is darker (95% similar).
Viseart Chocolat (PiP, ) is warmer (95% similar).
Marc Jacobs Beauty The Night Owl #6 (PiP, ) is darker (95% similar).
NABLA Cosmetics Adagio (PiP, $8.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Tarte Powerful (LE, ) is lighter (95% similar).
LORAC Espresso (PiP, $19.00) is cooler (95% similar).
Smashbox Coffee Blossom (LE, ) is brighter (95% similar).
Hourglass Monochrome #5 (PiP, ) is darker (95% similar).
Fireball is a light-medium peach with warm, orange undertones and a peach-to-pink, frosted shift. It had semi-opaque color coverage with a soft, lightly dusty texture. The eyeshadow applied well enough to the lid, but it did not go on as evenly as the permanent version has for me. This shade started to fade after seven hours of wear.
Makeup Geek Mai Tai (P, $6.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Pat McGrath Pale Fire (P, $25.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Natasha Denona Brown Mauve/Purple (2) (P, $28.00) is more shimmery, darker (90% similar).
Becca Pink Sapphire (LE, $38.00) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Urban Decay Duchess (LE, $19.00) is more shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Chanel Abstraction (LE, $32.00) is darker (90% similar).
NARS Outer Limits (DC, $25.00) is more shimmery, warmer (90% similar).
Urban Decay OC (LE, $26.00) is less shimmery (90% similar).
NARS St-Paul-de-Vence (Left) (DC, $25.00) is warmer (90% similar).
Chanel Tisse Vendome #3 (PiP, ) is warmer (90% similar).
Backfire is a muted, medium-dark purple with more neutral undertones and a frosted sheen. The pigmentation was good–nearly opaque–and went on evenly without issue. The texture seemed a touch drier in the pan, but I did not notice this when I applied it to the lid. The color wore well for eight hours before fading.
Pat McGrath Euphoria (LE, $25.00) is darker (95% similar).
Urban Decay Psychedelic Sister (P, $19.00) is lighter, brighter, cooler (90% similar).
Urban Decay Rogue (LE, $19.00) is cooler (90% similar).
Kat Von D Catherine (LE, ) is brighter (90% similar).
Colour Pop Double Date (PiP, $5.00) is lighter, warmer (90% similar).
Colour Pop Baby Roo (P, $5.00) is cooler (90% similar).
Inglot #445 (P, $7.00) is warmer (90% similar).
Makeup Geek Toxic (P, $6.00) is darker (95% similar).
Viseart Prune (PiP, ) is darker (85% similar).
Colour Pop Piece of Me (LE, $5.00) is less shimmery, lighter (85% similar).
Lounge is a deep, reddish brown with greenish teal pearl. It had a really smooth, cream-like texture–one of the richest and smoothest versions of Lounge I've tried–with intense, opaque pigmentation. The color lasted for eight hours before creasing on me.
P.S. — Please excuse that the first three images are from the Afterdark palette; we have everything set-up to pull images within a certain timeframe of when I upload them (I, unfortunately, can be very slow to review sometimes, so it isn't a matter of days but weeks for that timeframe), and this is an unusual situation where a brand has released the same color in two products within a few weeks of each other. I did not want to hold back this entire review for that one glitch (since it launches today), and it's something we'll try to resolve next week.
Buxom No Faux (P, $12.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Colour Pop Wishful Thinking (LE, $5.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Makeup Geek Insomnia (P, $12.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Kat Von D On the Road (P, $16.00) is warmer (95% similar).
Tom Ford Beauty Photosynthesex #2 (PiP, ) is less shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
Too Faced Girly (LE, $16.00) is warmer (95% similar).
MAC I've Got a Crush on You (LE, $32.50) is more shimmery (95% similar).
Kat Von D Queen (LE, ) is less shimmery, darker (90% similar).
Colour Pop Partridge (P, $5.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Armor is a muted, medium-dark grayish taupe with subtle, brown undertones and a pearly sheen. The eyeshadow had good color payoff with a soft, lightly dusty consistency that kicked up a bit of excess product in the pan but was easy enough to blend out on the lid without losing its intensity. I noticed signs of fading after eight hours of wear.
MAC Graphic Style (LE, $17.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
Dior Aventure (081) (P, $31.00) is lighter (95% similar).
Marc Jacobs Beauty The Starlet #7 (PiP, ) is lighter, brighter (95% similar).
MAC Electroplate (LE, $22.00) is lighter (90% similar).
Urban Decay Mushroom (P, $19.00) is lighter (90% similar).
Chanel Tisse Gabrielle #3 (PiP, ) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Buxom Frosted Pewter (LE, $12.00) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Bobbi Brown Smokey Grey (LE, $21.00) is less shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Laura Mercier Violet Steel (LE, $23.00) is cooler (90% similar).
Chanel Illusoire (P, $32.00) is darker (90% similar).
Heroine is a subdued, dark navy blue with fine lighter blue pearl. It had semi-sheer color payoff, which was buildable to semi-opaque coverage in two to three layers. The color would work best for someone who uses a primer or who would use it in the crease. The eyeshadow could have applied more evenly and blended out more easily. It lasted for seven hours on me before fading.
MAC Shop & Drop (LE, $17.00) is more shimmery, darker (95% similar).
Tarte Midnight Kiss (LE, ) is darker (95% similar).
bareMinerals Maven (LE, ) is less shimmery, lighter (95% similar).
Urban Decay Minx (LE, $19.00) is lighter (95% similar).
Anastasia Blue Velvet (LE, $12.00) is lighter (95% similar).
Giorgio Armani #02 (P, $32.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
MAC Panda Riot (LE, $17.00) is darker (95% similar).
Viseart Dark Matte #9 (PiP, ) is less pigmented, warmer (90% similar).
MAC Imaginary (P, $18.50) is more shimmery, lighter (90% similar).
Laura Mercier Deep Night (PiP, $23.00) is more muted (90% similar).
Blackout is a deep black with neutral-to-cool undertones and a mostly matte finish. It had semi-opaque pigmentation, which was buildable to opaque coverage with just a touch more. It's the type of pigmentation level that is only noticeably "under-pigmented" if patted onto the lid for an all-over lid color, but when I worked with it to darken and smoke out the crease, I didn't really notice it lacking coverage. This shade wore well for eight hours on me before fading.
Urban Decay Shadow Box $29.00/0.12 OZ.
Since this is exclusive to Ulta, I have no choice but to "leave" it! 😉 I take comfort in the fact that most of the shades I like in this palette are ones I already have and the LAST thing I want is yet another glitter-flurry of MCRA!!!
Sometimes I am impressed at UD's dedication to leave MCRA as-is and not improve it, LOL.
Oh, I know – it really is such a beautiful shade but (at least for me) totally unwearable because of the fallout throughout the wear period. I was so excited when the "new, improved" formula of Maui Wowie came out (it has to be at least 5 years now), so much so that I bought it. Well, it's only marginally better than the original and still pretty much unwearable so now I have TWO pans of the stuff! GRRRR. Honestly, Halloween is about the only time I use it!
When I wear it, I just use glitter glue primer and pack it on the lid. I haven't found any other way to make it work.
Totally laughed at this. Was surprised they pulled it out for this palette- it used to be in everything!
It looks like a pretty nice palette, although not one that I really need. This version of Lounge does look especially rich, this version of Backfire looks pretty good, and I think Armor is a beautiful color. Heroine looks like it would need a blue cream shadow underneath it in order to show up well, though. I like Delete a lot, but ABC Gum and Riff are warmer than I like on myself.
Heroine works better layered over something for sure!
It's been a long time since I've been interested in one of these UD palettes. Easy pass for me.
'Definitely not a "I need this!" palette, but it does have some pretty colors (problematics aside lol).
Well, I wasn't going to get this originally, but $29 and much improved over the last Shadowbox, decent shade range, suitable for travel or vacay, and I am far more tempted to get it. Undecided on it, though.
Definitely better quality this time around – a solid palette to try the brand's formula, but if you already have several UD palettes, not a must-have.
It's not bad overall but I'd rather just get a few singles.
It's a nice palette, but there are so many retreads. It's probably best for UD newcomers who want to sample the colors. Several of these shades were just in the Afterdark. I have almost all of them, so I'll be skipping.
I agree. I think it might be geared towards those new to the brand and/or aren't able to regularly indulge in UD products.
This looks pretty dang similar to the original Shadow Box palette that was being clearanced out last year (you reviewed it on Sept 8, 2014).
There are some similar shades, some differences. The quality of this year's is a lot better — and it's cheaper, too.
Easy pass for me as well because a lot of the shades feel similar to the Naked 2 palette for me with just a few pops of colour.
This is a bit of redundant palette to me as most of the shades I like, I either have (Half baked) or lots of dupes of (Midnight Cowboy Rides Again, Armor, Heroine, Baby).
Seeing that it is exclusive to Ulta, makes it difficult for anyone living outside of the US to obtain this palette.
It's sad that the only blue shade is such a poor one. Somehow, this palette reminds me of the Lorac Pro Metals palette – but that is much more cohesive and better.
The Pro Metals palette was great!
Too many dupes for what I own already, but this palette reminds me of the feelings I had when I was just beginning to buy eyeshadow. This feels like a great starter palette for the UD fan (and I kinda wish it was around when I first got into makeup… I bought the deluxe shadow box and ammo palette once upon a time and it didn't have this range). You got your nudes, some brights, and a double-ended brush! And $30… not bad. Willing to excuse the quality on 1 or 2 colors for so many other perks. Fun!
I totally agree — it feels like an intro to the brand!
I think it's a really great intro to the brand, but it's definitely not for the long-time fan!
Does anyone remember the OLD 'Smoked' palette from UD? this looks awfully similar!!


Chinese Communist Strategy toward the Islamic Countrues by Lt Col Alvin C. Isaacs, Ordnance Corps, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1966, p. 46. ← "Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement Supports Struggle of Arab Countries Against the West," Communist China Digest, No. 157, 16 Nov. 1965, pp. 103-104.
the whole world. . . .
Israel so as to threaten the independence and security of the Arab countries. . . .
The Arab people have risen like one man against the aggression and provocation of their enemies, U.S. imperialism, West German militarism, and Zionism; they have demonstrated the nettle of a heroic people and so won general praise among the peoples of the world.


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Daniel Martin Moore's 'Golden Age' review in Luna Kafe e-zine.
Daniel Martin Moore's new album opens with the title song where Moore sings: 'Our golden age is here,' in a hushed and almost reverent tone to a soft backing. "Our Hearts Will Hover" is a spiritual song with perfect harmonies. It recalls the seventies era of singer/songwriters. "Sign of Life" is another gorgeous song, Moore's voice at its finest.
Jim James of My Morning Jacket has co-produced the album and given it a very pleasing sound. "In Common Time" is a dreamy and complex tune where Moore's piano sounds fabulous, and his vocal is just right. It's a great album.

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People's purchasing power falls in 2021
YASIR WARDAD | Published: December 28, 2021 08:35:33 | Updated: January 01, 2022 09:50:52
Focus Bangla file photo used only for representation
The purchasing power of a vast majority of the population fell substantially in 2021 as their cost of living far outstripped the income that also grew, but marginally.
People, particularly from low- and lower-middle-income groups, have rued that their spending on key essentials and utility and other services increased at much faster pace than that of their income.
The economic hardship of the people was revealed in a news survey among a cross-section of people by The FE during last week.
It found that most essentials, like edible oils, flour, sugar, chickens, fish, red meat, milk, pulses, veggies and home-care products, and services like LPG, water, transports, medication and others soared between 6.0 per cent and 40 per cent during the outgoing calendar year compared to the previous year.
However, the spending on rice, house rent, and few other products or services remained almost static in 2021.
Market experts said pandemic-induced sluggish business, higher duties on some imported products, active market syndicate, price hike of diesel and kerosene as well as global raw material price hike cast a cumulative impact on the market.
Md Farid Hosain, salesman of a grocery at West-Dhanmondi in the city, used to earn Tk 12,000 a month in 2019. The pandemic-induced lockdowns in 2020 caused a setback in his family's income.
"I was lucky that the shop owner didn't cut my job and even raised the salary by Tk 1,000 per month since the beginning of 2021," he said.
His wife also earned Tk 7,500 a month from a local beauty parlour, but her earning remained static for the last two years due to the pandemic.
But, he said, the spending of his four-member family increased to a minimum of Tk 21,500 per month now despite having cut the spending on some food products like fruits, milk, vegetables, fish, meat and social-religious programmes.
The family's monthly average expenditure was Tk 19,000 in 2020.
The expenditure included house rent Tk 7,500, rice Tk 2,200, fish, meat and egg Tk 1,800, vegetable, potato and pulses Tk 400, cylinder gas Tk 980, water Tk 300, electricity Tk 500 to Tk 800, TV cable Tk 250, flour Tk 150, edible oil Tk 300, baby supplementary milk Tk 1,700, baby diaper Tk 650, sanitary napkin Tk 100, medicine Tk 1,200, sugar, tea and milk Tk 250 and transport Tk 400.
"Earlier, my wife could save Tk 500-Tk 800 a month. But now we have to borrow some money," he said on a note of disappointment.
The family's monthly spending increased by 13 per cent in 2021 than that of the 2020 while their income increased by only 5.0 per cent.
The FE's interview-based household survey covered schoolteachers, bus staff, salesmen/women of departmental stores, shopping malls and groceries, security guards, vegetable vendors, CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers, rickshaw-pullers, ride-sharing drivers, road-side tea-stall owners in the city.
It found that most of the low- and lower-middle-income families' monthly expenditure witnessed a 10-13 per cent hike in 2021 as compared to their income rise of 4.0-6.0 per cent.
The survey covered monthly expenses on 21 categories of essentials and seven kinds of services and utilities, excluding education, clothing, tobacco and some other components.
Official data also showed a rising price trend as the November 2021 data of the state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) showed that the point-to-point inflation increased to 6.2 per cent, calculated based on the consumer-price index (CPI).
The food inflation reached 5.9 per cent and non-food inflation 6.78 per cent in November, 2021.
Meanwhile, International Food Policy Research Institute (PRI)'s latest report published on Sunday showed that the moderate or severe food-insecurity situation in Bangladesh returned to the pre-pandemic level in 2021.
The study found two out of three rural households in September-October 2021 worried about not having enough food and more than half of rural households reported buying food on credit or borrowing money.
A World Vision Bangladesh study in 2021 revealed that more than 58 per cent marginal and ultra poor in the country witnessed a notable decline in their income due to the Covid-19 pandemic that forced many of them to eat even one meal a day instead of three.
Arunava Saha, deputy director of integrated technical programme at the World Vision Bangladesh, said key reason for income decline of the marginal poor and ultra poor was the Covid-induced lockdown that distorted the value chain.
He said their report found the number of households eating three meals a day having fallen from 98 per cent to 70 per cent with the advent of the Covid-19.
"The condition remained worst for the ones who lost jobs or even witnessed a decline in income due to the pandemic," says Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem, director (research) at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). He says the prices of essentials have been rising in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the globe mainly due to a hike in prices of raw materials like fossil fuel, fertiliser, seeds, machinery and others.
Dominant market playing by the big importers, millers and hoarders compared to that of the government's lesser share in the market has also been causing surge in the prices, he adds.
The economist suggests that the government's safety-net programmes like open-market sales of essentials should be expanded vastly to help the poor during this economic condition caused by the pandemic.
"The diesel price should immediately be reviewed to prevent further price hike of essentials and services; farm mechanisation should be boosted to reduce the production cost of food," he says.
He also fells that the government itself will have to raise employment through its regular development programmes, rural infrastructure development and safety-nets during this tough time to help people who are struggling to survive.
Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) vice-president SM Nazer Hossain said the government should remove import duties on products like edible oil, sugar, milk and other import-dependent essentials to give consumers some relief.He said the import duty on rice should also be made rational following its uptrend in the market.


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A real option or a curse?
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E.G.: Perrier had benzene in it; other: cleaning solvents from machinery.
This Is A Stunning Report On Your Favorite Bottled Water.
It seems like BPA is in quite a few products that come into contact with the food we eat.
Beth Daly, Staff Writer for the Boston Globe has put together Answers to questions about BPA found in some bottled water containers some time ago.
Here is an update from the FDA dated March 2013. The tip-toeing around the issue of BPA is disconcerting.
No BPA for Baby Bottles !!
It was reported earlier this month in the Washington Post that The Attorney General for Connecticut was successful in his request to 6 major chemical companies to stop selling bottles in the USA that contain BPA.
This news is good - but more should be done as substitute materials are available. We are adults longer than we are children hence our exposure will be lengthy. Instead of baby bottles, we will be ingesting this chemical from other sources.
Do you have a comment on BPA or bottled water in general?
Drop us a note using the form below. We are interested in knowing your views.


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Nov 24, 2014 | Fukushima Accident Updates | 0 comments
Tsunami clean-up inside the Fukushima exclusion zone has finally begun. On Friday, 11/21/14, work on dismantling the ships beached by the 3/11/11 tsunami started. There are about seventy stranded vessels, mostly fishing boats; 62 in Namie, six in Tomioka, and one each in Minamisoma and Naraha. Cranes are being used to remove cabins and other open deck structures as the first step. The Environment Ministry plans to have the project done by the end of March. Similar efforts have been completed in Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures, but nothing had previously been done inside the exclusion zone due to contamination concerns. However, it seems that there is so little radioactivity on the ships that the Ministry feels there will be no problem with dismantling and disposing the waste materials. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201411210063 — http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014112100403
The first public evacuation drill in Fukushima Prefecture occurred on Saturday. It took place in Kawauchi Village, roughly 30 km southwest of F. Daiichi. More than 250 residents and about 1,000 local government officials took part in the exercise. The mock scenario was unit #3 at F. Daiichi having a prolonged loss of spent (used) fuel pool cooling due to an earthquake of "upper 6" on Japan's scale, roughly similar in magnitude to 3/11/11. Japan's scale runs from 0 (least intensity) to 7 (worst-possible intensity). The scenario assumed that radioactive materials were released, causing Kawauchi to register a 20 microsievert per hour radiation exposure level. (~175 millisievert/year) Residents evacuated to Tamura and Koriyama, while 27 students at an elementary school were moved to Tamura. http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001738983
Tepco will stop equipment tunnel water inflow with cement. Their unsuccessful freezing effort ended earlier this month and did not stop the inflow from the attached turbine building basements. Tepco made the formal announcement to the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday. The trench of most concern runs about 60 meters from unit #2 to its seawater intake structure, holding 5,000 tons of highly contaminated water. The company told the NRA they want to pour cement into the tunnel and remove contaminated water at the same flow rate as the cement pour. It seems Tepco will first fill the deepest part of the trench with concrete and see if that stops the inflow of water. If not, they will continue filling the tunnel. Tepco estimates that 1-3% of the contaminated water will mix with the concrete and become part of the hardened mass. The NRA questioned if the new plan would work and voiced concerns about cracks forming once the cement hardens. One commissioner asked why they didn't do this in the first place. The other trench of concern runs from unit #3 to its intake structure and holds about 6,000 tons. Tepco says they should have both tunnels finished by January so they can complete building the frozen wall around the four units. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html — http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141122p2a00m0na015000c.html
Kansai Electric Co. continues to weigh licensing extensions. Tokyo has told all Japanese utilities to decide whether or not to apply for license extensions for the units at or near the post-Fukushima 40 year limit on operations. Kepco has two units at the Takahama station that should be the first to be considered. Tokyo says the decision must be made by next July. Kepco President Makoto Yagi says they will base their decision on a 20-year economic forecast and whether or not the units will turn a profit during that period. Fukui Prefecture's Governor Issei Nishikawa says local governments should also be involved in the process. He says, "Local governments, as well as utilities, have to check the decommissioning process and this will require funding. Where will midterm storage facilities be built? Where will a final storage facility for the spent fuel and nuclear waste be located? It's necessary for the central government to be deeply involved." Also to be considered is $200 million per year in state subsidies that the local communities will lose if the units are scrapped. Then there's the general negative feelings toward nuclear plants expressed by most of the prefecture's public. Further, if the units are to be restarted, the emergency planning and local consent issues must be resolved. In addition, the antinuclear entities want their say. Aileen Mioko Smith of Green Action, a Kyoto-based anti-nuclear lobby, said, "It is particularly unconscionable for the Abe government to open the way for old reactors to operate when the Fukushima accident is ongoing." http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/23/national/kepco-weights-new-lease-life-geriatric-reactors/#.VHMvF6N0wdU


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Remember me, O my God . . . spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!
When I was young, I learned an important lesson about discipline. I discovered that when I got spanked at an "arm's length" from my father, it hurt worse than if I snuggled up close to him. Later, when I played baseball, I discovered why. It had something to do with momentum.
For those of you who have spent any time playing baseball, you have probably observed that the faster the head of the bat moves, the more powerfully you can hit the ball. Extending your arms generates the momentum needed to hit a home run. But keeping your arms close to your body causes the bat to move too slowly to do any real damage. You must have momentum to launch a hit like Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire.
My dad couldn't get much momentum into the spanking if I remained close to him, so I learned to stick like glue. But it was another story if I resisted and tried to squirm away. He could then get his arm in full motion.
Compare that with God bringing one of His children, or an entire nation, to justice. Our rebellion or resistance not only distances us from God, but it also places us in a more painful position. However, our heart-felt repentance for sin draws us close to the Father's side.
In this time of trial, when God is vying not only for America's attention but also her affections, we must press close to the Father. He must be our companion more than anyone else. Instead of running from Him in fear or ignorantly thinking we are beyond His judgments, we must be a people who embrace Him and beg for His mercy—for the Lord is merciful, even when we are more aware of His judgments than we are His tenderness.
God's mercy is one of the aspects of His nature that stirs our hearts. We expect Him to be just as small and picky as we are—never happy, never content, never satisfied, seeing all our faults, and nitpicking us to shreds. So then, when we suddenly come face to face with His mercy and grace, we are dumfounded. His kindness is so profound, so tender and unexpected, that all we can do is stop in our tracks and just stare at Him.
Fear has to do with punishment (1 John 4:18), but perfect love—that is, knowing God—leaves no room for fear. Fear has no place in the life of an individual who knows the heart and mind of God.
Life does not get any simpler than this. In times of trouble, those who know the heart of God will put their trust in Him. That is what happens—and it is not done in vain. He has never forsaken those who, instead of running, have turned and buried their faces in His side. It is His kindness, after all, that leads to repentance (Romans 2:4).
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4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
4 3 2 1 is a huge behemoth of a book that takes commitment and persistence to finish.
The first third of the book was absolutely stunning. I was nearly all the way through the first section of four chapters about Archie Ferguson, wondering when the four parallel lives were going to come into play, when I realised that I was already there. Being confronted with two conflicting stories about what had happened to Archie's father and his business caused me to completely reassess the previous chapters. Others may have worked out Auster's numbering device sooner but I was only reading a chapter a night before bed.
When I finally had my ah-ha moment, I doubled back to create a timeline for each life - where did each Ferguson live, what car did his mum drive, which cigarette brand did she smoke, what happened to his uncles and aunts and how did his dad's furniture business pan out? I thought I would never keep track of all the details.
However as we moved further away from the common story of Archie's origin, the four lives diverged so much that it actually became fairly easy to remember what was happening in each story and why.
Auster, well known as an adherent of metafiction, used his characters to play with his ideas about parallel lives at various times.
Archie 3 said early on,
The world wasn't real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn't have been happening....but an unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not yourself at the same time.
Later on Archie 4 remarked,
there seemed to be several of him, that he wasn't just one person but a collection of contradictory selves, and each time he was with a different person, he himself was different as well.
All of the Archie's developed a few influential friendships and key interests (sport and literature in particular). They appeared in different ways and took different forms for each Archie.
The early years of the four Ferguson's were clever, fascinating and exciting writing. I was hooked.
I reached the halfway point of the story so quickly, I felt sure I would finish the rest within a week. A personal chunkster record! But then we hit Archie's early twenties and my attention and enthusiasm began to flag. I had been waiting for some 'big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and something else begins.' Just like Archie 1.
Instead, the stories had settled into just another coming of age story in America in the sixties.
I put the book aside for a couple of weeks to see if a mini-break would help.
It didn't.
I ploughed my way through the next four chapters of Archie, but failed to recapture my enthusiasm. Everything that had charmed me early on just annoyed me now.
Usually I love books that mention books that the characters are reading, but by the end of 4 3 2 1, Archie's huge reading list felt like nothing more than a whose who of classic and modern literature with no surprises and seemingly little relevance to the story. To discover that one of the Archie's was writing a book called The Ferguson Story added another metafiction layer, but failed to excite me.
I have worked and reworked this response to 4 3 2 1, and I'm still not happy with it. Like the book, I feel it is unsatisfactory and overly long. But an inadequate posted review is better than an unposted draft waiting for brilliance.
Perhaps that's how Auster felt too.
For another 4 3 2 1 review try My Booking Great Blog.
Posted by Brona Labels Coming of Age, Contemporary Fiction, Metafiction at 18.4.17
I knew that this book wouldn't be for me... I'm glad that you're out there reading the behemoths so that I don't have to feel even the slightest twinge of guilt that I will never even try.
I have another behemoth on my radar for May - The Patriots - I hope I have better luck with it 😬
Thank You for the great review! I think its very good! Most importantly, I was planning to read this one soon, but now I think I will up some other stuff on my TBR!Thank you for a great insight!
Unless you're in the mood for a chunkster or a sixties American love fest, I'd say find something else to read. The parallel lives were so fascinating at the start & Archie 2's story was very powerful & poignant, but it just went on for too long & got too bogged down in it's America as the centre of the universe thing. I wasn't expecting an Auster novel to be so nostalgic and so US-centric.
I have read since that there are a lot of autobiographical elements in this story, which explains the nostalgia & sentimental tones I guess.
My husband read this on audiobook recently (read by the author) and felt just the same way you did. He really disliked the lists. His favourite was no 3, he asked me to say that.
Most people seem to have got bogged down by the middle of the book.
I can't remember now which one of the Archie's I liked the best. No 2 made me catch my breath every time though.


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A dedicated hydraulic system keeps the ink in circulation and a battery of filters eliminates the impurities and air bubbles, thus preventing the nozzles from blocking and almost totally eliminating the machine down times.
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YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — A memorial park and a hiking trail were dedicated Tuesday to 19 elite Arizona wildland firefighters who died in 2013 in a brush-choked box canyon while battling one of the state's most devastating wildfires.
Relatives of the Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighting team gathered at a trailhead for the somber ceremony dedicating the site as an Arizona state park, where Gov. Doug Ducey said the 3-mile trail and memorial would serve as a lasting tribute to the fallen firefighters' heroism.
Only one member of the team, a lookout, survived the June 30, 2013, fire after shifting winds trapped the firefighters near the small town of Yarnell, in central Arizona. It was the deadliest day for U.S. fire crews since 9/11 and the worst for wildland firefighters since the 1933 Griffith Park fire of Los Angeles, which killed 29.
Dan Parker, whose son Wade died in the fire, said his return to the site was moving and that he wants to bring others there so they can remember and honor his son. The 320-acre park opens to the public Wednesday.
The park was dedicated after Arizona's Legislature spent $500,000 in 2014 to buy the land and the nearly 3-mile trail was built from a state highway to the spot where the flames trapped the firefighters.
The trail itself is lined with memorial plaques for each firefighter. It zigzags from the highway up a steep slope to a ridgeline, then follows the ridgeline to a spot with a view into the canyon where the firefighters were killed.
The trail then descends into the canyon to a memorial site with 19 wire baskets filled with rocks marking the locations where flames overcame the crew. A flagpole is set in the center of a memorial site.
On the day they died, the firefighters were stationed in a relatively safe position on a ridgetop.
But for unknown reasons and without notifying anyone, they moved down the mountainside through an unburned area where they were trapped by a wall of flames when winds shifted the fire toward them.
State workplace safety regulators blamed the firefighters' deaths on the Arizona Forestry Division, saying it put protection of property ahead of safety and should have pulled crews out earlier.
A state investigation found that fire officials lacked key personnel to battle the Yarnell fire at critical moments. An earlier investigation commissioned by the Arizona Forestry Division found that state fire officials communicated poorly but followed proper procedures.
The state paid a dozen families who sued over the deaths $50,000 each and promised to change how Arizona responds to fires and trains its fire crews. The survivors also received insurance and other benefits.
The fire also burned 127 homes, and people who lost them have sued the state.


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An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the punishing of blasphemies and heresies : with the severall penalties therein expressed. Die Martis, 2 Maii 1648. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.
An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for regulating the University of Cambridge. Die Sabbathi 14. Febr. 1645. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.
An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: for setling the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. Die Mercurii 12. April. 1648. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.


The 10-15 per cent average hike in third-party motor premium by the regulator is not sufficient to cover the losses and therefore the claim ratio will stay high, say industry officials.
"The average hike of 10-15 per cent by the regulator IRDA is not enough to cover higher claims in this segment," Future Generali India Insurance chief executive KG Krishnamoorthy Rao told PTI.
He said the claim ratio is likely to stay in the range of 140-150 per cent in this segment despite the premium hike.
The regulator IRDA has raised the third-party motor premium by 10-15 per cent, effective April 1, against a demand for a minimum 50 per cent increase by the industry.
The third-party motor insurance, premia of which is regulated by IRDA, is one of the loss making segments and the industry has been constantly demanding for higher premia to cover the mounting losses.
A Tata AIG General Insurance official said insurers will take up this issue with the General Insurance Council and will approach the regulator for reconsideration.
"We will take up this issue with the General Insurance Council and approach Irda for reconsideration," Tata AIG General Insurance chief executive K K Mishra said, adding that the loss ratios will remain high despite the hike.
He added that after raising the provisioning (the amount of money general insurers need to set aside to meet the high level of claims) to 210 per cent of the claims from 145 per cent last year, premium rates should be more.
ICICI Lombard General Insurance chief (Underwriting and Claims) Sanjay Datta said, "The increase in the third-party premia will have limited impact on private car and two-wheeler customers since third-party premium constitutes a small component of the total premium."
The rate increase is a prudent attempt to maintain the balance between the need to increase rates given the rise in claims and impact on customers, Datta added.


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Off-the-Clock Work Alleged at Waste Management, Inc.
Lawyersandsettlements.com; May 5, 2013
Houston, TX: On the surface, an unpaid wages lawsuit would suggest that work is performed without receiving compensation. But there is a grey area. Were an employee be required to don and then doff cumbersome uniforms or protective gear prior to starting work, one would assume the donning of protective gear required by the employer would be met with compensation, as it is a requirement of the job.
And if an employer docks a worker for punching in late to start the day, or returning from a lunch break late, the penalty could be interpreted as off-the-clock work.
The latter was highlighted in the presence of a television camera crew for the reality TV series Undercover Boss in 2010. The premiere episode of the series featured Waste Management Inc., a goliath amongst the waste management industry with 42,800 employees and total equity of $6.591 billion (2010 figures).
And yet - as the television show documented - if you were a minute late clocking in after a lunch break, you were docked two minutes pay. Essentially, that minute a worker is docked is a minute's worth of work the employer is not paying for. In essence, it becomes off-the-clock work.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Waste Management at the time, Lawrence (Larry) O'Donnell III, while posing undercover as a general laborer, was shown on camera to view the docked pay rule as unfair and repealed the penalty sometime after the CBS series debuted February 7, 2010, following the Super Bowl. O'Donnell was depicted as making other changes to the firm.
However O'Donnell is no longer at Waste Management, leaving the firm on July 1, 2010 - five months after O'Donnell's appearance on Undercover Boss aired - and barely one month after, it should be noted, Waste Management settled an unpaid overtime lawsuit in Massachusetts.
And according to various complaints boards, there are still issues at Waste Management that employees are not happy about.
One individual posting to ComplaintsBoard.com, a widely used consumer website, noted in a 2011 post that he had worked at Waste Management for a period of 11 years, describing the most recent three years as a nightmare. The post author referenced working off the clock daily, and "I'm still thinking about a lawsuit."
A woman who posted on June 20, 2011, noted that her husband was a current employee of Waste Management Inc. in Bridgeport, West Virginia, at the time she posted to the board, "but is quitting soon." She noted her husband leaves for work at 4:00 a.m. and doesn't arrive back home until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. It is not clear if the worker was receiving overtime and therefore might consider an unpaid wages lawsuit. The worker, according to his wife, was missing out on vacation time because, she alleged, Waste Management had insufficient employees to keep up with the workload.
That complaint - i.e., the long hours of work - appears to be a common theme with Waste Management current and former workers who've left reviews on the employment website, Glassdoor.com (see chart above of current and former employee reviews found at Glassdoor.com, 5/3/13).
While working long hours in and of itself does not necessarily translate to an overtime pay violation, the tenor of one WM employee's comments seems to raise the question as to what's expected of WM drivers, and the extent to which they're compensated for what's expected of them.
The WM driver, who's based in Henderson, Colorado, left a comment on March 29, 2013, about having to attend safety meetings before each shift which, while understandably important, he says could be lengthy, and drivers are then expected to "make up the time." His comment reads:
"They also hold safety meetings before each shift which at first I thought was great; many times you feel as though it is to express that 'We are watching your every move out there' and 'You are all not meeting the quotas,' meaning you are not working hard enough or fast enough!! And should these meeting put you behind because they run long that is your problem to make up the time somehow and their trucks break down on a constant basis, and you are also required to still figure out to make up your route should this happen, If you can't, a supervisor will show up asking what the problem was, and why didn't you get the route done..."
While the driver does not indicate whether or not he was compensated with overtime pay - or docked any pay if work was not completed - the insinuation is clear: the onus in on the worker to get the work done regardless of what management may require over and above completion of the garbage pickup route.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
Composer, performer, singer, author, cartoonist, comedian, electric harpist–mix those and you begin to describe Deborah Henson-Conant. Symphony Tacoma is thrilled to perform with this phenom for our community! The Grammy-nominated artist was on NBC, CBS, CNN, and starred in two PBS specials. Nicknamed "Jimi Hendrix of the Harp," Deborah (with her rockstar leather-and-boots attire) will draw ticket-buyers across demographics. She transfixes audiences with her electric-harp strapped on like a guitar, making it wail like Led Zeppelin or enchant with Celtic folksongs. Sounds come from its 32-strings nobody would predict: Blues. Jazz. Flamenco. Distortion. We anticipate incorporating an interactive audience-education session along with this show. Henson-Conant, Maestra Ioannides, and our principal harp player plan to hold a "post-concert talkback" giving insights into the repertoire, answer student Q&A, and offer the opportunity to see the famous electric harp up-close.


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Board Member Profiles - Jane Goff
Jane Goff (D)
7th Congressional District, Arvada
Terms of Office: March 2008 – January 2021
Jane Goff, representing the 7th Congressional District, was first elected to the Board in 2008, and was re-elected for a second term in 2014.
Jane is a Colorado native and both a graduate and retired employee of Jefferson County Public Schools, where she enjoyed a 34-year career as a classroom French and Spanish teacher and as the director of the district's World Languages and International Student Exchange programs. Jane served as president of the Jefferson County Education Association (JCEA) from 1998-2000 and as vice-president of the Colorado Education Association (CEA) from 2000-2006. Prior to joining the State Board, Jane worked as a legislative aide for the Colorado House of Representatives.
During her years as a Jeffco teacher and leader, Jane coordinated the district's first Teacher Performance Pay pilots and helped to design the Links for Learning program, a teacher-employer partnership between the Jeffco Schools and the West Chamber of Commerce. She was the first teacher graduate of Leadership Jefferson County, and she served four years as Vice President for Education on the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. Jane remains regularly involved in the Jeffco community; experience that proved extremely valuable following the Columbine High School tragedy in 1999. She was often consulted on matters related to school safety and crisis response, presenting the teacher perspective to a variety of local, state, and national audiences.
In 2010, Jane received the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers' Friend of Foreign Languages Award, and was selected for the 3rd annual U.S. Educators' Study Tour to Japan, sponsored by the Japan Foundation of the United States.
Jane currently represents the State Board of Education on Gov. Hickenlooper's Education Leadership Council and she is the Board's designated Democratic legislative contact. She is also the liaison to the State Advisory Committee on Gifted Education, and a member of the selection committees for Colorado's Teacher of the Year and Milken Family Foundation Teaching Awards. Jane is regularly involved in supporting the work of the Colorado School Counselor Association, the Adams County Education Consortium, and the Jeffco Schools Strategic Planning Advisory Council.
Jane recently completed her term as President of the National Association of State Boards of Education, but remains a member of the NASBE leadership team as Immediate Past President. Prior to election to the presidency, Jane had served a total of four years as NASBE's Western Region Director and President-elect.
Jane earned her degree in Modern Language Education at Colorado State University and graduate hours in school administration and counseling at the University of Colorado.
Jane and her husband Harry, also a Colorado native and a graduate of Denver Public Schools, live in Arvada.
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The ATSB will conduct an on-site media briefing on its investigation into the 9 December 2013 aircraft accident near the Lakelands Senior High School, South Lake, WA.
The Investigator-in-Charge, Mr Alex Hood will discuss factual information known to the ATSB at this time and will outline the investigation process.
The ATSB has deployed four investigators, who will begin work at the accident site on Tuesday afternoon 10 December 2013. Over the next two days they will examine the wreckage site, interview witnesses and collect maintenance records.
The investigators are seeking witness reports including any video footage that might assist the investigation. Witnesses can call the ATSB on 1800 020 616.


We met while performing in the basement of a dive bar in Boston. After a seemingly endless courtship, we fell in love and moved to San Francisco just one month later. As collaborators in life and on stage, we explore the humorous, touching, and challenging moments of new beginnings. This is our story.
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There's plenty of time for winter to arrive
Anna L. Griffin
Can you imagine how cold it is? After all, it�s only mid-January.
Eight more weeks and it will be spring. And it will probably still be about 30 degrees out and snowing to beat the band.
We could be doing a lot worse. This winter has been mild by most measures, but there�s still February to go through, and that�s generally when we get our snowiest weather. Remember the Blizzard of �78? How about the April Fool�s Day Blizzard.
With this crazy weather, we�ll probably be getting a blizzard on the Fourth of July. Who knows? That�s what makes living in New England so interesting.
During December, the employees at Enterprise Bank in Leominster organized a raffle to help support Beacon of Hope, which is a nonprofit agency based in Leominster that works to help enhance the lives of adults with disabilities.
�Our customers were extremely generous this year and as a result of their contributions, we are pleased to present the Beacon of Hope with a check in the amount of $2,100,� stated Donna LaPointe, fundraiser chairwoman. The money will help to support such programs as recreational programs, advocacy and supportive services for caregivers. The Beacon of Hope was founded in 1983 by caregivers and parents with a common goal.
The Friends of the Lunenburg Public Library are pleased to announce the inaugural presentation of �The Friday Night Flicks,� a monthly film series. The flicks provide an opportunity to view first-run, award-winning films that are not available at the local multiplexes. The themes are universal and will appeal to adult audiences.
The first film in the series is �A Simple Curve,� filmed in the mountains of British Columbia. The story concerns a father and son and the clash of their very different values.
This film won two Leo Awards, and the director, Aubrey Nealon, was named Best Writer/Director at the Nantucket Film Festival. The only local showing will be at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in the Wallace Room at the Lunenburg Public Library, 1023 Massachusetts Ave., Lunenburg.
Take a chance to win a Honda Civic Hybrid.
To raise awareness of the Nashua River Watershed Association and raise funds for its environmental programs, the NRWA is raffling a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid � with mileage estimates of 50 miles per gallon. Tickets are $20 (less than a tank of gas), and a maximum of 2,500 tickets will be sold.
The NRWA is a nonprofit environmental organization that protects the region�s natural resources with land stewardship, water protection, and environmental education programs. The NRWA watershed consists of 31 towns in north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
For more information on the car, the organization and to purchase a ticket, visit the Web site, www.NashuaRiverWatershed.org.
The annual Healthy Habits Health Fair and the January Business After Hours event sponsored by Heywood Hospital will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, in the Heywood Hospital Dining Room, 242 Green St., Gardner.
The cost to attend is $5 for chamber members; $7 for nonmembers. Hors d�oeuvres, beer and wine will be served.
The health fair will offer a variety of health screenings, including cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index, blood sugar and oxygen levels and an array of informational displays on health-related issues, health insurance options and health reform.
Reservations are requested and can be obtained by calling the Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce at (978) 632-1780.
Additionally, Heywood Hospital�s Diabetes Education & Support Group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in Dining Room B of the hospital. The program will be repeated from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, also at the same location. These programs will be presented by Rose Davis, registered nurse and a diabetes educator. The program is free of charge to all those who wish to participate, but preregistration is required. To register, call Heywood Hospital at (978) 630-5719.
The new Faculty Center for Teacher and Learning at Fitchburg State College will officially open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening celebration at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25. After the ceremony, the staff will be on hand until 6 p.m. to give welcome tours and offer technology demonstrations to visitors. The public is invited to attend.
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'Slaughterhouse Rulez' | Film Review
November 1, 2018 (Last updated: November 2, 2018)
Alix Turner 0
Posh boarding school is so short of funds the headteacher allows fracking to commence in the neighbouring wood, little knowing that the resulting tremors would release some nasty beasts from under the ground.
I went to see Slaughterhouse Rules – sorry, Rulez – tonight, having seen posters showing what looked like the new Simon Pegg and Nick Frost "horror comedy". Do not be fooled like I was: another Shaun of the Dead this was not. No wit, minimal laughs, and both Pegg and Frost played less than secondary roles.
Slaughterhouse is an expensive boarding school, and the first half of the film really milks the ultra-traditional setting. But while the spoof advertising video at the start led me to expect a class satire, the rest of the film seemed to alternate between nostalgic charm and ridicule. The location was fabulous, and the sixth-formers classically chiselled, but because of the various exaggerated characters, it came across more like the writers (Crispian Mills and Henry Fitzherbert) were sneering at exclusive schools, rather than expressing any affection.
And this school was dreadful! Harking back to Tom Brown's Schooldays, the older boys were either prefects or bullies or both; and the younger ones swots or victims. The main character, Don (Finn Cole), was dropped off there by his mother who apparently did not notice the cloud of misery (and occasional misogyny) hanging over the place. Honestly, it wasn't just the introduction to the school, but the first half of Slaughterhouse Rulez was all about setting the scene by way of misery or shouting. Tedious. That atmosphere, unfortunately, took priority over establishing characters, which were sketched very lightly: Don tells one of his new "friends" how difficult it is to "be yourself" at this school, but he doesn't seem to have any depths or identity to struggle with (was I spoiled by watching The Hate U Give recently?).
The cast was good, of course. Martin Sheen is the headmaster, aka "The Bat", and as an actor, he can do little wrong. This particular role belonged in St Trinian's mind you, and he can play humorous roles as well as serious ones. But the humour was all in his style, not in the script. Simon Pegg played a heartbroken teacher, who was either moaning or drinking most of the time. He had a short period joining forces with the students near the end, but for the most part, his Mr Houseman was quite pathetic (and not in a funny way). Nick Frost played an anarchist environmental protestor, which suited him just fine, but the role didn't have the energy I remember from Shaun or Paul. Again, it was a small role: don't go expecting this to be a Pegg and Frost film.
Slaughterhouse Rulez belongs to Finn Cole and Asa Butterfield, who plays Don's roommate, Will. Don is the fish-out-of-water "northern" kid, who gets into the school because his father has died and left funds; and because a previous student had also died (mysteriously) and left an empty bed. Don doesn't present much personality though and can't have been terribly demanding to play. (Funny, they could have made something of him feeling bereaved, but his father was barely mentioned.) Asa Butterfield, on the other hand, played a much more interesting character: I did like Will a lot. It's been interesting to see Butterfield grow from a child actor into a striking young man; he still has the boyish features, though his face could easily belong in a manga. He manages brooding grace and a little mystery as Willoughby, and in my opinion was the main saving feature of Slaughterhouse Rulez.
And yes, there were monsters. I know I've left it until my article was over half done before mentioning them but hey, that's what happened in the film too! Barely any clue that there was anything unusual in the woods (I think I've mentioned before on this site that I'm a bit tired of horror films set in woods: trees are lovely!), except for the odd shape on the energy company's equipment; and then suddenly, it becomes a creature feature. Rather poor creatures close up, too (I saw better in Boar a couple of months ago), but they did deliver some gruesome killings. Don't ask me to tell you what they looked like, though, or what they actually were: weird hell-beasts or previously undiscovered subterranean who-knows-what. It wasn't clear. Maybe that didn't matter, but on the other hand, maybe it was also another symptom of a film that didn't know what it was doing.
The bottom line is this: Slaughterhouse Rulez is billed as a horror comedy, but I didn't find it exciting, scary or funny. It's not intelligent enough to be a satire or witty enough to be a black comedy. The last "horror comedy" that I watched and found effective was Shyamalan's The Visit, and that one made me feel edgy and gave me nervous laughter on and off; whereas Slaughterhouse Rulez made me laugh once and wince twice. Additionally, it doesn't seem to know whether the terror is about ancient beasts or environmental risk; and doesn't know whether girls are there to be humoured or chased. Nearly everyone is a caricature yet it is not a spoof. The school setting is charming in parts, sure; but then in the next moment, it is turned around and spat on.
Bizarre, unfunny muddle: could do better.
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Q: C++ Builder Delete Objects of dynamic Array I want to delete old images I created in a for loop.
The first time clicking the Button the images are created. The second time or third, whatever, the old Images that were created should now be deleted (before the loop) and then directly recreated in the loop.
Because I am getting the Image properties from the database and when someone changed something in the database you should be enabled to get the newest Image properties from the database.
I tried it with delete Image[i], free() and delete[] (whole Array) but I am always getting an Access Violation Error. Here is my following code:
TImage *Image[c]= ; //c is 5

I want to delete the old Images here and then create the new in the loop below
for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
{
str = " Test "

Image[i] = new TImage(this);
Image[i]->Parent = BoardItem ;
Image[i]->Height = 20 ;
Image[i]->Width = 20 ;
Image[i]->Position->X = d ;  // The program asks you the coordinate at the begining of a new loop
Image[i]->Position->Y = e ;
Image[i]->Bitmap = Icon->Bitmap ;
Image[i]->StyleName = str ;
Image[i]->OnClick = ImageClick ;
}

A: @Mykola i pulled the example out of my code , so it is not that complicated to understand. in button2 i want to delete now all images that are on tabitem1
void __fastcall TForm2::Button2Click(TObject *Sender)
{
TImage *Image[5] ;

for (int i = 0; i < c; i++) {
Image[i] = new TImage(this);
Image[i]->Parent = TabItem1 ;
Image[i]->Height = 20 ;
Image[i]->Width = 20 ;
Image[i]->Position->X = 10 ;
Image[i]->Position->Y = 10 ;
Image[i]->Bitmap = Image1->Bitmap ;
Image[i]->StyleName = "Something" ;
Image[i]->OnClick = ImageClick ;
}
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
void __fastcall TForm2::ImageClick(TObject *Sender)
{
TImage *Img = dynamic_cast<TImage *>(Sender);
ShowMessage(Img->StyleName);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
void __fastcall TForm2::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{

}

A: You must delete single image by simple delete operator like:
for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
{
    delete Image[i];
    // NULL deleted pointer
    Image[i] = NULL;
}

Access Violation also may be caused because you still use this images somewhere in your code. And why did you want delete this images? As they are pointers you may simple renew values.
To reserve values for unpredictable amount of pointers TImage* you can use:
TImage** ppImage= NULL;

than create amount of pointers you want:
ppImage = new TImage*[c];

after that you may work with those pointers like you did before.

A: You could go like this. In the header of the class you define the array and some methods:
int c;                            // Maximum (better as define?)
TImage *Image[];

bool CheckImagesLoaded();
void DeleteAllImages();
void CreateImage(int nIndex, AnsiString str);
void CreateAllImages();

Then, in the constructor you init the array:
c = 5;
for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
{
    Image[i] = NULL;
}

Now you can do the check if images were already loaded:
bool TForm1::CheckImagesLoaded()
{
    return Image[0]!=NULL;
}

To delete them all:
void TForm1::DeleteAllImages()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
    {
        delete Image[i];
        Image[i] = NULL;
    }
}

Create a a single image like this (you have to expand the parameters as you need them):
void TForm1::CreateImage(int nIndex, AnsiString str)
{
    Image[nIndex] = new TImage(this);
    /*Image[nIndex]->Parent = BoardItem ;
    Image[nIndex]->Height = 20 ;
    Image[nIndex]->Width = 20 ;
    Image[nIndex]->Position->X = d ;  // The programm asks you the coordinate at the begining of a new loop
    Image[nIndex]->Position->Y = e ;
    Image[nIndex]->Bitmap = Icon->Bitmap ;
    Image[nIndex]->StyleName = str ;
    Image[nIndex]->OnClick = ImageClick ;
    */
}

And in a loop you can create all images as you like:
void TForm1::CreateAllImages()
{
    AnsiString str = " Test ";
    for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
    {
        // load data from anywhere...
        CreateImage(i, str);
    }
}

So, now you can operate in the Button-Event.
Delete all old Images, if existing.
Create all new Images.
void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{
    // Delete old Images, if existing
    if (CheckImagesLoaded())
    {
        DeleteAllImages();
    }

    // Create new Images
    CreateAllImages();
}

Hope this helps...

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Erdmann & Rossi was originally a coachbuilding company based in Berlin, Germany. In the early half of the 20th century, the company became known for the manufacture of chassis used on luxury vehicles. After the devastation of World War II, the company was unable to recover financially.

History
Founded in 1898 by Willy Erdmann, the company began manufacturing coaches with Wheelwright in Luisenstraße, Berlin, Germany. In 1906, car salesman Eduard Rossi joined the company, which was then engaged in metallurgic coachbuilding for cars. Rossi, though younger than Erdmann, became CEO and moved the company to Linienstraße, Berlin. A short time later in 1909, Rossi died in an accident. This left Erdmann to serve as CEO until his retirement. In the early years, Erdmann & Rossi had about 50 employees and was not well known outside the region.

The Golden Era
Friedrich Peters, who was from Schwerin, became the CEO of Erdmann & Rossi. Peters had worked in various positions at the company before marrying a wealthy customer who made him acquire the company in 1910. Peters' affable nature helped him to establish good relations with members of the nobility and others in similar positions of power. In 1912, Erdmann & Rossi received the royal warrant for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Wilhelm II, German Emperor ordered luxury cars as gifts for foreign heads of state and top politicians, such as Enver Pasha, Ottoman Minister of War.

World War I disrupted and reduced the company's production. Besides body repair jobs, Erdmann & Rossi only built vehicles for medical use and mail delivery during this period.

In the 1920s, the company moved to Karlsruher Straße in Berlin, and by the 1930s, its business model focused more on putting high-end bodies onto frames built by German and other manufacturers. The company also became the German representative for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and Bentley.
Erdmann & Rossi modified trucks to add advertisements for other companies, including international producers such as Maggi.

After the Nazi seizure of power, the company took advantage of the new political situation. Leading Nazis like Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess became customers, as did celebrities loyal to the regime like race car driver Bernd Rosemeyer, who ordered the Horch 853 Coupé "Manuela" in 1937/38, and the first German recipient of an Academy Award Emil Jannings, whose modified Mercedes is still exhibited in Aalholm Castle, Lolland. Other famous clients included race car driver Rudolf Caracciola, pilot Ernst Udet, and Ernst Heinkel.

In 1933, one of the company's competitors, Wagenfabrik Jos in Neuss, with around 60 employees, was acquired by the company and moved to Berlin-Halensee. Its formative designer Karl Trutz retired and Johannes Beeskow became the chief designer. During this time, Erdmann & Rossi was Germany's leading luxury coach builder, followed by the remaining competitor Voll & Ruhrbeck from Charlottenburg. Beeskow and Peters liked aerodynamic car shapes and various innovative ideas.

Also in Halensee, coach builder Rometsch, which specialized in mid-sized cars like Opel (a later subsidiary of General Motors) cooperated with them. Designer Beeskow started working for Rometsch after the war. A new business line was adding luxury interiors to Junkers Ju 52 for Lufthansa.

About 200 workers (250 at peak) manufactured two to three car bodies per week. Individual custom designs for royal houses were created, for example, for Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld of the Netherlands, or in 1935, a Mercedes-Benz 540K for the King Ghazi of Iraq, which was designed by Figoni et Falaschi.

Beeskow and Peters' brother Richard often traveled to England, where Beeskow was inspired by the British automotive design of J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited.

Decline due World War II
In 1936, Richard Peters took over the company from Friedrich Peters, who was ill and died a year later. When World War II began in 1939, Erdmann & Rossi shifted production from luxury bodies to only doing repairs.

There is almost no information about the equipping of Siebel Si 204, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor and Breguet Aviation which were possibly used by the Luftwaffe. In the early 1940s, an aerial bombing of Berlin resulted in Erdmann & Rossi's archive burning to the ground, resulting a huge loss of information about its history. In 1943 to 1944, the remaining employees moved the company to Trebbin, Fläming Heath, twenty miles south of Berlin.

In 1949, the last car body was manufactured (assembled on a Maybach SW 42 chassis). Destruction from war, a difficult economy and the separation of Berlin, caused huge problems for re-establishing the former business. Richard, son of Günter Peters, was the last CEO.

Gallery

Further reading
 (German) Werner Oswald: Deutsche Autos Band 2 - 1920-1945. 2. Neuauflage, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, .
 Rupert Stuhlemmer: The coachwork of Erdmann & Rossi, Dalton Watson Verlag 1979, .

References

External links
 Website of Erdmann & Rossi Club
 Coachbuild.com Encyclopedia: Erdmann & Rossi

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Manufacturing companies based in Berlin
1898 establishments in Germany
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1898

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Art review: unexpected views at 'Slips and Glimpses' and the world map reimagined
New work from Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger and Kathy Prendergast
Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 06:00
Aidan Dunne
Summit by Robert Armstrong, and Hem by Anna Bjerger at Slips and Glimpses, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Chancery Lane, Dublin
Atlas: Kathy Prendergast at the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Slips and Glimpses: Robert Armstrong and Anna Bjerger
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Chancery Lane, Dublin
The title "Slipping Gimpses" references a statement by the artist Willem de Kooning, when he referred to the content of a painting being a glimpse and, even better, an off-balance, unexpected glimpse, a "slipping glimpse". Effectively, this two-person show consists of two solo shows with no conscious connection but a happy congruity of manner. Anna Bjerger and Robert Armstrong are both slipping glimpsers. They arrive at their respective glimpses by different means but for both what counts is the work that follows on from the glimpse, the alchemy that can occur when you make marks with paint.
Writing about Bjerger's work, Christian Viveros-Fauné described it as "a type of 21st century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual postmodern art". Just as the 19th century plein air and impressionist artists had set out to convey an optical truth, Bjerger, he suggests, has her sights on what might be called a photographic truth. That is, her paintings reflect the reality of living in a photo-saturated world. Rather than going out and setting up her easel in the street or the countryside, she trawls the ocean of photographic imagery in which we swim and nets as her sources examples that spark her interest.
In the work of Luc Tuymans, the photographic source is usually a pallid trace, an echo of a diminished, impoverished reality. Bjerger takes a more generous view. While there is a sense of distance and anonymity to her often fragmentary, truncated images, her paintings are made with evident love for the medium – and love for the image as embodied in paint. She works on aluminium panels and apparently relishes the fast, slippery nature of the metal as a support.
It's an unforgiving support. The fresh, vibrant energy of each piece is part of its appeal, but stems from a certain instability in the process, which demands both fluidity and fluency on the part of the painter. One false move could sink the painting. It's not a question of building up a dense, polished image in layer on layer of glazes. Rather it's a matter of blending a series of moves all of which constitute one complex, quivering surface.
Armstrong seeds his paintings with references, but it's reasonable to describe such references as being metaphors or even, on occasion, decoys. He revisits classical western paintings and/or biblical imagery, and specific geographical locations. Previously he has looked to an island that is gradually disappearing due to climate change. Here, he alludes to the extraordinary rock column Sigiriya in Sri Lanka, briefly a fortress, then a Buddhist monastery. The notions of transience, change and disappearance recur. The western face of Sigiriya, it is thought, was once covered by a vast fresco.
The cloud as motif runs through his paintings. It's a magical cloud, as in the pillar of cloud, a symbol of divine intercession that guided the Israelites. Everything – including clouds – is there, one feels, so that he can get on with the business of painting, something that holds true for Bjerger as well. Jazz comes to mind, as when jazz musicians take a tune and reinvent it, not aiming to create a pure performance of an iconic original, but using the tune as a starting point to make something new, embracing possibility, fluidity, invention.
Until December 17th, kevinkavanaghgallery.ie
Atlas: Kathy Prendergast
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Black Maps: Kathy Prendergast
Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
For "Atlas", Kathy Prendergast has appropriated 100 copies of the AA Road Atlas of Europe and laid them out, opened, each atop a small folding table, to make up an approximate, composite map of Europe. At first glance the gallery resembles a classroom. Have a look at one of the atlases, though, and it seems that someone's been messing around with a black marker. Every page has been carefully blacked out, leaving just a network of white dots in no apparent order.
The dots are cities and towns. Borders, coastlines, mountains, rivers, lakes, communications networks – everything has been obscured leaving just these signs of life, points of light glowing like stars in the night sky. Atlas follows directly on from Prendergast's "Black Maps". Some works from that series, focused on the Czech Republic and Slovenia, are currently on show in Gallery 2 in the Douglas Hyde in Trinity College.
She is not prescriptive about the meaning of the maps, but they do invite interpretation. She removes layers of information to bring to the fore an essential truth. The amended maps evoke, for example, a sense of common humanity, emphasising the fact that humans are isolated beings clinging to life on a small planet speeding through a vast darkness. This at a time when borders, divisions, exclusion and sectarianism are all to the fore.
She's by no means sermonising about all this. The work is quiet and understated. And the abiding feeling is a certain melancholy, even sadness. Perhaps this line of interpretation is coloured by an awareness of recent history and current events, but it does seem to come across strongly, even as the work implicitly argues for a more positive realisation of our place in the wider world beyond petty differences and prejudices. The only drawback to the installation is the practical limitation of the Kerlin's layout. Ideally, the work should be positioned in an even larger room and doubtless, at some stage in the future, it will be.
Atlas runs until December 10th, kerlin.ie
Black Maps runs until February 1st, douglashydegallery.com
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STEP Journal: March 2014
A voice for the vulnerable
Karl Dowling discusses the implications of Ireland's new mental capacity legislation.
On 17 July 2013, the Irish government published provisions designed to reform the rules relating to mental capacity. Practitioners should be acutely aware of the nature and scope of these proposals, as they provide for substantial change to procedures that have been long embedded in their mindset.
Summary of provisions
The reform measures contained within the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 are of an impressive breadth and, in particular, propose to:1
Replace the wards of court system with a legal framework to support people in exercising their decision-making capacity so that they can better manage their personal welfare, property and financial affairs.
Change the existing law on capacity from the current all-or-nothing approach to a functional one, whereby decision-making capacity is assessed on an issue- and time-specific basis.
Provide a range of support, on a continuum of intervention levels (for instance, decision-making assistance, co-decision-making, decision-making representation and informal support) to aid people in maximising their decision-making capability.
Provide, in circumstances where it is not possible for a person to exercise their capacity even with support, that another person can be appointed by the court to act as their representative with regard to specified matters.
Provide that the Circuit Court will have jurisdiction in this area, giving court-backed protection to the options chosen by people.
Clarify the law for carers who take on responsibility for persons who need help in making decisions.
Establish an Office of Public Guardian within the Courts Service, with supervisory powers to protect vulnerable persons.
Subsume into the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 the provisions in the Powers of Attorney Act 1996 on enduring powers, in order to bring them into line with the general principles and safeguards in the Bill.
In their joint statement announcing the publication of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013, Ministers Alan Shatter and Kathleen Lynch indicated that: 'The Bill will, at committee stage, incorporate provisions relating to advance care directives, which will be provided by the Department of Health.' Such provisions could substantially enhance the scope of authority bestowed upon attorneys, thereby vastly improving the utility of the enduring power of attorney procedure.
Altering an existing will in the absence of testamentary capacity
While the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 proposes fundamental change in relation to, inter alia, wards of court and enduring powers of attorney, it also contains a revolutionary proposal that a person who loses capacity may subsequently, and during their lifetime, have their last will and testament altered by the court in certain circumstances.
Such a concept is new to Irish law and practitioners should be aware of such a radical change. Section 108(2) of the Bill provides that:2 'Where a person who has made a valid will loses testamentary capacity, the High Court may, acting on its own motion or an application to it by the Public Guardian, alter the will where it is satisfied that exceptional circumstances have arisen since the loss of testamentary capacity and the interests of justice so demand, and a will so altered shall have the same force and effect as if the alteration had been made by that testator in the manner required by the [Succession] Act of 1965.'
Subsection 2 provides for a statutory basis upon which a court can intervene to alter the terms of a testator's will where 'exceptional circumstances have arisen since the loss of testamentary capacity and the interests of justice so demand'.
As the law stands, a court's jurisdiction to interpose its views on the terms of a deceased's will is limited to certain administrative questions, such as the construction of the terms of a deceased's will where a constructional ambiguity arose, or the making of provision for a child who is successful in s117 proceedings.
It should be clearly stated that the discretion contained within s108(2) of the Bill does not empower the court or a third party to write a new will for a person incapacitated, but rather bestows upon the court the power to alter the terms of an existing will if it thinks fit to do so.
Under the proposed regime, s108 potentially allows for the entire redesign of a testator's will during their lifetime where that testator has lost testamentary capacity, albeit only in exceptional circumstances.
Where such circumstances exist and where it appears that the 'interests of justice so demand', an application may be made to the proposed Office of the Public Guardian (or the court acting on its own motion).3
Additionally, s108 is unambiguous in bestowing jurisdiction solely upon the High Court to determine such matters. It remains to be seen whether further statutory guidance will present itself as to the form of such applications or whether such applications will be listed before the High Court non-contentious probate list for hearing.
The stance of the Law Reform Commission
Such applications were previously considered by the Law Reform Commission. The Commission, commenting upon the utility of such a provision, stated that '[a]mending an existing will on behalf of a person who lacks capacity may allow alteration to reflect a significant change in circumstances.'4
The position of the Law Reform Commission as set out in its 2006 report is essentially the one reflected in s8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013.
In making its recommendation, the Law Reform Commission appeared to favour the approach of allowing for an application to be made to court to alter the terms of an existing will of a testator who has lost capacity. The Commission preferred this approach over empowering a third party to make a new statutory will on behalf of a person who has lost capacity, as the Commission harboured fears that: 'There is a strong possibility that assisting decision-makers may be inclined to unfairly favour their own interests in making applications under a statutory will procedure.'
1Press release issued on 17 July 2013 by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter TD, and the Minister of State with Responsibility for Disability, Older People, Equality and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch TD, announcing the publication of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013
2See also the explanatory memorandum to s108 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013
3However, it remains unclear as to what circumstances would be deemed 'exceptional' for the purposes of the section
4Report on Vulnerable Adults and the Law, LRC 83-2006, page 92
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Sporting Lisbon and yellow cards
Italy's drive for trust transparency
A business families man
Held to account - keeping trust accounts when there are underlying companies
Settlor loans and liabilities
From Azerbaijan to Zambia: Successful online courses broaden STEP's horizons
Ready for the REIT
Funds in the sun
Offshore crackdown
Exceptions to the golden rule
Statutory wills and litigation friends
Divorce without capacity
The gold standard for wills
Estate planning: the new era
IP tax planning in the age of anti-tax avoidance
Broken stalemates
Death before completion
The family office redefined
Book Review: A Modern Approach to Wills, Administration and Estate Planning (with Precedents) (2nd edition)
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