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Getting the Twain to meet
MARVIN BALLIET
Whether you are the CIO of an entire corporation or the CIO of a company division, the perception of technology and your role as a provider of technology services has changed dramatically since the spring of 2001. Gone are the days when the technologist was viewed as the transformer of the business model, when the question was not whether one should spend on innovation (of course!), but whether one was spending enough to ensure timely delivery. Current questions about return on investment and value have changed not only the approach toward technology investment decisions but also the formula for a CIO's career success.
As CFO for the Global Technology & Services Group at Merrill Lynch, which includes technology, operations, real estate and general services, I have a unique perspective as both a provider and user of technology services. In fact, I was given the role of CFO for Global Technology in 1999 because I had been one of the most vocal critics of technology as the CFO of fixed income trading. I have observed the role of the division CTO evolve from manager of an overhead cost organization in the mid-1990s, to a business initiator between 1998 and mid-2001, and eventually into the current role-in this period of austerity-as an efficient enabler of business capabilities. (At Merrill Lynch, CTOs function as both CIOs and CTOs.)
Those role changes were a direct result of the misconceptions regarding technology during the period of exuberance from 1998 to spring 2001. During that time, decisions to increase distributed computing and broadband capacity, and events such as Y2K, the appearance of the Euro and the dotcom craze fueled the massive increases in technology investments across all industries. Those increases, however, were not always driven by sound business decisions. They were driven by fear in business executives: fear of noncompliance, fear of social meltdown that seemed to surround Y2K, fear of loss of market share, fear of lower revenue growth. At that time, investors rewarded companies spending on new technology with higher market capitalization values even if the bottom-line returns on the investments were not clear. "Don't be left behind" became the mantra around most investment decisions. That all changed when the dotcom bubble burst, resulting in a new focus around efficiency and alignment with business profitability and objectives.
These days, I seldom hear the business and technology sides debating over the need for a wireless strategy based on the latest technology capability or marathon sessions evaluating what vendor's B2B solution must be immediately implemented. Discussions are now concentrated on meeting client service needs and improving earnings while managing risks. I must say, however, that in no way diminishes the importance of continued innovation and new functionalities. The question to answer now is whether the new innovations and functionalities fit into a company's business strategy with an acceptable rate of return.
Establishing the Common Ground
The formula for technology success is the development of common strategic goals for both business and technology that center around increasing competitiveness, growing revenue, lowering costs, and maintaining speed to market and quality service-while managing the business and technology risks. The keys to this formula are:
Business ownership of technology investments to ensure consistency with the business unit's objectives. Technology has lost its mystique-in a good way-so that now business managers can see it as one of many ingredients that is available to them to create the right processes and structures to maximize profitability.
Clear communication of the common strategic goals through all levels of the business and technology organizations. Unless the objectives reach all levels of your organization and become part of the daily decision-making process, delivery will fall short of expectations.
Ability to react in a timely manner to changing market conditions that affect anticipated returns from technology projects. Technology decisions and expectations must be periodically reviewed to ensure that returns are acceptable.
The Tools of the Common Ground
At Merrill Lynch, we have developed a number of tools during the past few years to help drive the establishment of and timely adjustments to our common business and technology goals. Those tools include:
IT portfolio management. Each business owns and manages its portfolio of technology investments and constantly rebalances the portfolio to meet its business goals and anticipated impact on the business's bottom line. For example, at Merrill Lynch, we were seeing significant volume growth on the Nasdaq during the dotcom era and were progressing with IT initiatives to meet that demand. When the bubble burst, the business quickly shifted that technology investment to the fixed income business where the technology ROI was much higher.
IT portfolio management comprises:
"Lights on" application maintenance
Regulatory and mandated initiatives
Existing application enhancements
Strategic investments
The overall goal is to lower the total size of the portfolio over time while maximizing the strategic investment of the portfolio. We use a Web-based application called Business Engine Network (BEN), from San Francisco-based Business Engine, for technology portfolio management. This tool integrates financial and portfolio planning as well as project and resource management with delivery and financial performance. BEN can be thought of as the ERP solution for the IT factory.
Cost transparency. We have closely aligned technology organizations with the businesses they support. For instance, the business unit's technologists are included in the unit's headcount, and those technologists have a dual-reporting relationship: both to the global CTO and to business management. Additionally, core infrastructure service charges have been established based on actual drivers of costs and service levels-we charge our data center back to the business units that obtain actual benefits from it. For example, we charge back long-distance usage to the individuals who make the telephone calls. Those changes have created an understanding by business managers of the impact of their decisions on business profitability. The knowledge of which IT costs are controllable has forged partnerships between business and technology to reduce lower value services and fund strategic initiatives.
IT performance measurement. Each business's ability to balance efficiency, flexibility and control determines its success. Merrill Lynch's technology metrics program measures service delivery and cost efficiency, evaluates vendor and staffing flexibility, and controls project delivery and costs. For example, all our technologists and CTOs compile a scorecard on strategic vendor relationships. Semiannually, we evaluate each vendor's performance based on service delivery, price and procurement process, technology forefront, and willingness to form strategic alliances. The vendor is then issued a grade from A to F in each of these quadrants, and the scores are used to make an assessment of continued alliances. The process ensures that each technologist knows the priorities of business and IT management, and delivers them in an efficient manner.
Daily integrated IT governance. While the Merrill Lynch budget process establishes overall investment targets, the daily governance model ensures efficient and effective utilization of resources. Each IT project, with the exception of those mandated by regulators and companywide infrastructure initiatives, is sponsored by the business. Each project requires the approval of both the business management and appropriate technology groups after completion of technical feasibility analysis, risk and benefits evaluation, and a complete financial total cost of ownership review, including ongoing maintenance costs over five years. Projects are evaluated quarterly, again by the business managers and technologists, for ongoing business value and may be stopped or deferred through a business priority review process. Merrill Lynch also permits nontechnology budgets to be reassigned to technology initiatives.
CIOs must proactively ensure that business sponsors own their technology portfolios. They must advise those sponsors and deliver results that enable the business to meet its objectives. By performing the role of an efficient enabler, not only will CIOs avoid reverting to the 1990s perception of technology as an overhead expense, but they will create the trust necessary to become the business initiator when the opportunity arises and the returns are evident.
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Q: function return struct compile failed by gcc, but sccessful by vc6.0 Why is this failing to compile by gcc, but successfull by vc6.0
gcc version 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux)
linux:~# cc t.c
t.c: In function 'main':

t.c:24: error: invalid use of non-lvalue array - printf((confFQDNtolower(&tFQDN)).strName);

The code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

typedef struct  {
    char strName[128];
    unsigned short wLen;
}T_FQDN;

T_FQDN confFQDNtolower(T_FQDN *ptFQDN)
{
    static T_FQDN tFQDN = {0};
    int i;

    tFQDN.wLen = ptFQDN->wLen;
    for (i = 0; i < ptFQDN->wLen; i++)
    {
        tFQDN.strName[i] = tolower(ptFQDN->strName[i]);
    }

    return tFQDN;
}

int main()
{
    T_FQDN tFQDN = {"a.B.c", 5};

    printf((confFQDNtolower(&tFQDN)).strName);

    return 0;
}

A: Try
printf(&(confFQDNtolower(&tFQDN).strName[0]));

See the accepted answer and comments here to understand why this changes things.
 C - invalid use of non-lvalue array

A: the only thing you need to change is the printf() line:
printf("%s", (confFQDNtolower(&tFQDN)).strName);

The above works both with GCC and VisualStudio's CL compilers.

A: I think should change the code in the following manner.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct  {
    char *strName;
    unsigned short wLen;
}T_FQDN;

T_FQDN confFQDNtolower(T_FQDN *ptFQDN)
{
    static T_FQDN tFQDN = {NULL,0};
    int i;

    tFQDN.wLen = ptFQDN->wLen;

    if(!tFQDN.strName) free(tFQDN.strName);
    tFQDN.strName = strdup(ptFQDN->strName);

    for (i = 0; i < ptFQDN->wLen; i++)
    {
        tFQDN.strName[i] = tolower(tFQDN.strName[i]);
    }

    return tFQDN;
}

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A Cast of Thousands in New Production of Cats
A staple of Broadway for many years, the famed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats (based on poet T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) is soon to have its biggest staging yet. Stagecoach Theatre Arts will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in spectacular fashion by putting on a one-time-only production of Cats on March 24 that will feature 3,000 performers. To be held in Birmingham, England at the U.K.'s National Indoor Arena, the performance will have a main cast of 500 singers and 50 dancers, and they will be accompanied by 2,500 young performers, ranging from ages 7 to 18. "I'm absolutely thrilled that so many young people will be able to take part in this very special performance of Cats," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement. "Happy 25th Birthday Stagecoach and thank you for giving your students the opportunity to perform the show in such a spectacular way."

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The length of s days
Found at: gopher.erb.pw:70/roman/phlog2022/634.txt
The length of Earth's days has been mysteriously increasing
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements,
have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer,
and scientists don't know why.
has critical impacts not just on our timekeeping, but also things
like GPS and other technologies that govern our modern life
(https://bit.ly/3BRqoFX).
Over the past few decades, Earth's rotation around its axis - which
determines how long a day is - has been speeding up. This trend has
been making our days shorter; in fact, in June 2022 we set a record
for the shortest day over the past half-century or so.
But despite this record, since 2020 that steady speedup has curiously
switched to a slowdown - days are getting longer again, and the
reason is so far a mystery.
While the clocks in our phones indicate there are exactly 24 hours
in a day, the actual time it takes for Earth to complete a single
rotation varies ever so slightly. These changes occur over periods
of millions of years to almost instantly - even earthquakes and
storm events can play a role.
It turns out a day is very rarely exactly the magic number of 86,400
Over millions of years, Earth's rotation has been slowing down due
to friction effects associated with the tides driven by the Moon.
That process adds about about 2.3 milliseconds to the length of each
day every century. A few billion years ago an Earth day was only
about 19 hours.
For the past 20,000 years, another process has been working in the
opposite direction, speeding up Earth's rotation. When the last ice
age ended, melting polar ice sheets reduced surface pressure, and
Earth's mantle started steadily moving toward the poles.
Just as a ballet dancer spins faster as they bring their arms toward
their body - the axis around which they spin - so our planet's spin
rate increases when this mass of mantle moves closer to Earth's
axis. And this process shortens each day by about 0.6 milliseconds
each century.
Over decades and longer, the connection between Earth's interior
and surface comes into play too. Major earthquakes can change the
length of day, although normally by small amounts. For example,
the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 in Japan, with a magnitude
of 8.9, is believed to have sped up Earth's rotation by a relatively
tiny 1.8 microseconds.
Apart from these large-scale changes, over shorter periods weather
and climate also have important impacts on Earth's rotation, causing
variations in both directions.
The fortnightly and monthly tidal cycles move mass around the
planet, causing changes in the length of day by up to a millisecond
in either direction. We can see tidal variations in length-of-day
records over periods as long as 18.6 years. The movement of our
atmosphere has a particularly strong effect, and ocean currents also
play a role. Seasonal snow cover and rainfall, or groundwater
extraction, alter things further.
Since the 1960s, when operators of radio telescopes around the
planet started to devise techniques to simultaneously observe cosmic
objects like quasars, we have had very precise estimates of Earth's
rate of rotation.
A comparison between these estimates and an atomic clock has
revealed a seemingly ever-shortening length of day over the past few
But there's a surprising reveal once we take away the rotation speed
fluctuations we know happen due to the tides and seasonal effects.
Despite Earth reaching its shortest day on June 29 2022, the
long-term trajectory seems to have shifted from shortening to
lengthening since 2020. This change is unprecedented over the past
The reason for this change is not clear. It could be due to changes
in weather systems, with back-to-back La Nina events, although
these have occurred before. It could be increased melting of the ice
sheets, although those have not deviated hugely from their steady
rate of melt in recent years. Could it be related to the huge volcano
explosion in Tonga injecting huge amounts of water into the
atmosphere? Probably not, given that occurred in January 2022.
Scientists have speculated this recent, mysterious change in the
planet's rotational speed is related to a phenomenon called the
"Chandler wobble" - a small deviation in Earth's rotation axis with
a period of about 430 days. Observations from radio telescopes also
show that the wobble has diminished in recent years; the two may
be linked.
One final possibility, which we think is plausible, is that nothing
specific has changed inside or around Earth. It could just be
long-term tidal effects working in parallel with other periodic
processes to produce a temporary change in Earth's rotation rate.
Precisely understanding Earth's rotation rate is crucial for a host
of applications - navigation systems such as GPS wouldn't work
without it. Also, every few years timekeepers insert leap seconds
into our official timescales to make sure they don't drift out of
sync with our planet.
If Earth were to shift to even longer days, we may need to
incorporate a "negative leap second" - this would be unprecedented,
and may break the internet.
The need for negative leap seconds is regarded as unlikely right
now. For now, we can welcome the news that - at least for a while
- we all have a few extra milliseconds each day.


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Prohibition||Research
One Million Hours
Mar 19, 2013 Kate Zawidzki
arrest, DPA, Drug Policy Alliance, Harry Levine, Michael Bloomberg, New York, NYPD
Have you ever wondered how many hours law enforcement officers waste on arresting and processing people for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession? The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has the answer, and it's in the seven digits.
[caption id="attachment_6069" align="alignright" width="219"] Michael Bloomberg (Photo by Time.com)[/caption]
The DPA reviewed low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests carried out by the New York Police Department (NYPD) during Mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure and found that NYPD used approximately 1,000,000 hours of police officer time to make 440,000 marijuana possession arrests over 11 years. That's 1,000,000 hours that could have been spent investigating and solving serious, violent crimes. And that is just one city.
Additionally, the report, which was prepared by professor of sociology at Queens College Dr. Harry Levine, a recognized expert on marijuana possession arrests, estimates that the people arrested by NYPD for marijuana possession have spent 5,000,000 hours in police custody over the last decade.
The only people who profit from a police force high on marijuana arrests are the real predators. How many more hours will be squandered until lawmakers realize that targeting non-violent marijuana users is putting our communities at risk?
New Report Shows Marijuana Arrests Unfairly Target Blacks
DPA, Drug Policy Alliance, Harry Levine, Los Angeles, NAACP, Proposition 19, Queens College, Tax Cannabis
On the same day that the California NAACP endorsed that state's ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition (now officially named Proposition 19), our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance released a new study that shines a light on the systemic racial bias behind marijuana arrests taking place all across California.
Among the report's findings:
"In every one of the 25 largest counties in California, blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at higher rates than whites, typically at double, triple or even quadruple the rate of whites," even though "U.S. government studies consistently find that young blacks use marijuana at lower rates than young whites."
"In Los Angeles County, with nearly ten million residents and over a quarter of California's population, blacks are arrested at over triple the rate of whites. Blacks are less than 10 percent of L.A. County's population, but they are 30 percent of the people arrested for marijuana possession."
"Police in other California counties, even those with relatively few blacks or relatively low rates of marijuana arrests, still arrest blacks at much higher rates than whites. African Americans are arrested for marijuana possession at nearly three times the rate of whites in Solano County, and at three to four times the rate of whites in Sonoma, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco counties."
The report, written by Prof. Harry Levine of Queens College, finds this overwhelming racial bias to be a "system-wide phenomenon" and not just the result of a handful of racist cops. That's because most narcotics officers are assigned to patrol so-called "high-crime" neighborhoods that are disproportionately low-income and minority. In those neighborhoods—as in nearly all neighborhoods—the most likely, or easiest arrest an officer can make is for marijuana possession. If we want to end this racial bias, we need to end the laws that allow it to occur. Come November, California voters will have an opportunity to do just that.


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India at 75 must exclude violence and its perpetrators
M.D. Nalapat
It is not possible to be a good Hindu, Muslim or Christian without first being a good human being.
The persisting spread of Covid-19 (SARS2), despite extraordinary measures taken by governments to contain it, resulted in a multiplying number of theories about the causes of such increases in caseload. The only factor that goes unmentioned is that the tiny size of the virus and its transmission through the air make it less than certain that most face masks would prevent an infection from an affected individual to another, although social distancing may help block such spread. The problem is that keeping several feet away from other human beings may be a problem anywhere, not just in India but in almost all other countries as well. Across the world, despite governments mandating much of human behaviour (including the suggestion that hands should be kept away from the face), cases continued to rise. And as the curve rose rather than flattened as forecast, more and more scapegoats were found. Depending on what part of the political divide an individual was located in, either the Tablighi Jamaat or the Kumbh Mela was blamed for the spread. 2020 was a year marked by insecurity and fear, with incomes crashing, jobs vanishing and numerous activities banned to flatten a curve that followed its own rules rather than those set by the WHO and adopted by countries across the world. At least in India, 2021 was marked by a much greater range of activity than was the case during the past year. Another Great Indian Lockdown (circa 2020) was avoided. Several state governments imposed curfews, apparently acting in the belief that (somewhat in the manner of mosquitoes) the virus came out towards evening and made itself scarce during much of the daylight hours. In Delhi, malls were shut down once again, while in Gurugram, they were open only until 5pm. That was fine for households where the man or the lady of the house stayed inside the house, but created a problem for those households where both the husband and the wife were working in offices and could not therefore shop at a mall. Compared to the inconvenience and disruption that lockdowns, curfews, closure of businesses and other steps taken caused, were the benefits in terms of a lower Covid-19 caseload proportional to such a cost? More importantly, was there any flattening of a curve that seemed to rise up and fall seemingly on its own volition? Australia, Germany, France, Italy and other countries introduced a new variant of democracy, where the unvaccinated were denied several of the privileges and freedoms of those who had taken two or more jabs of the vaccine. As in 2020 with the lockdowns, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again set a world record by completing first a billion and soon afterwards 1.5 billion Covid-19 vaccinations even as the pandemic raged across the country.
There are repeated cries that Israel is an "apartheid" state that discriminates against some elements in its population. Such accusations come mostly from countries where the Jewish community has been substantially (where not totally) eliminated. India under the present dispensation is repeatedly accused of "genocide against Muslims", this when there are about 200 million Muslims in India, who are contributing so much to the progress that the country is making. The entity that is loudest in its cries of "genocide in India" and the need for "protection of minorities" is Pakistan, where both the proportion as well as the number of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians have dwindled into insignificance across the decades. Any country which considers itself civilised should ensure that every citizen be treated equally, irrespective of his or her faith, lifestyle, language or diet. The future of India depends on such an ambience being strengthened rather than ignored in the manner that it had been for more than two generations. Of course, any activity or speech that demonstrably promotes violence needs to be dealt with. Overall, the Modi government's record of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas is stellar. It is the perceived or actual exceptions that are assisting the Sino-Wahhabi alliance in their project to demonise India and its leadership. As pointed out by former Supreme Court Justice Rohinton Nariman, there seems to be overkill in using sedition laws to lock up cartoonists, comedians and even students on the grounds that they indulged in hate speech. There are, of course, those who target only a single faith rather than others, such as was the case with an artist whose more audacious depictions were solely of divinities of a particular faith. Had he done the same with other faiths, Husain may have been locked up as soon as he entered Qatar. The versatile Husain was never put to any such inconvenience in the country that made him wealthy and famous, India. A comedian who pokes fun only at a single set of beliefs while ignoring others may not be showing freedom of thought but prejudice. Citizens pointing this out, including through social media, would be a better alternative than the colonial practice of filing cases and locking people up. Democracy in India is nearly 75 years old. This is surely time enough for graduating to the standards and practices of a strong and confident democracy. Actions such as sending into exile a writer whose mother lives in, and loves, India would be to repeat the errors made by past governments, including during the 1970s, the period when so many personal freedoms were replaced with state control over both lives and livelihoods. Despite the Erdogans and the Bajwas, the world is changing for the better, what with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia fighting against extremism and the UAE allowing a temple to come up within its territory. It is not possible to be a good Hindu, Muslim or Christian without first being a good human being. And that means accepting those of different beliefs as part of the same cultural DNA and societal dynamic, rather than as the Other, barring the violent and fanatic fringe that seeks to expand at the cost of the moderate.
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Guide them to a new name
in Minor Leagues on 07/20/05
Up in Connecticut, the Norwich Navigators have decided that since half the minor-league teams in the country are either relocating or redesigning their logos that they, too, need a new identity. And they're going all-out, planning a new nickname and logo for the 2006 season.
Apparently, the link to the city's seafaring history along the Thames River is no longer exciting enough, nor is the shortened Gators moniker. But in today's minor-league landscape, 11 years is a long time to stick with a nickname.
So where will they go from here? Coming up with a new team name can be difficult because of the marketing licenses and money involved. You can pretty much consider any current nicknames in the four major sports off-limits to start with, and that would carry on down through the minor leagues and colleges. If, for example, Norwich wanted to go with "RiverRats," in a nod to the Thames and other scenic rivers in their southeastern corner of Connecticut, they'd probably need to get permission — and then pay licensing to — the New Jersey Devils' affiliate. And they won't want to do that, because they'll want to keep all the merchandise revenue, rather than having to split profits with another team. Don't be fooled — the potential cash flow is the main reason behind this campaign. Certainly, Giants will be out, because that's just boring and won't bring in any money.
I love the quirky names and logos of minor-league teams, so I'm interested in this switch. Fans can submit as many requests as they'd like to the Navigators website, so let's see if they take any of mine.
Norwich Steamers. Applies to both the area's maritime history (though that's probably something they're trying to move away from by ditching the Navigators name) and clams — and when you think of Connecticut, maybe you think of seafood.
Norwich Oysters. Connecticut's official state symbols don't offer many options, unless you want to go with Robins or Charter Oaks.
Norwich Whalers. The NHL's Carolina Hurricanes probably still hold the rights to this one, and since it looks like professional hockey isn't dead, that could be a problem. But the Canes could be persuaded to relinquish their rights in exchange for one-time compensation. This one fits the state symbol idea.
Norwich Witches. Of course. It rolls off the tongue … but I can't take credit for it. There was a minor-league team with that name in the Connecticut State League from 1899-1907.
Norwich Bonbons. Now we're getting somewhere. Again, sadly, not my idea. Another throwback to a previous team.
Norwich White Whales. Take the Whalers idea and make it more specific. Would provide the second-best literary reference in professional sports, behind the NFL's Baltimore Ravens.
Norwich Blokes. So many New England towns are directly named after burgs back in England, so why not acknowledge that? I suppose it doesn't make sense, considering the sport of baseball has no connection whatsoever to England, but it's not a bad name.
Norwich 95ers. Or Ninety-Fivers, if you prefer. Why not pay homage to the great New York-to-Boston highway with a baseball team name? The logo could be a ribbon of highway with two lanes of cars strung together bumper-to-bumper, not moving. The mascot would be a state trooper or a tow-truck driver.
Norwich Blackberries. Named for the nearby river but also has the added connection to the pinacle of portable personal organizers.
Norwich Traitors. It's the birthplace of Benedict Arnold and since one way to go with team mascots is to have them be mean and threatening, what could be more intimidating than a traitor?
I'll let you know which ones are chosen for the vote.
I don't mean to brag, but I must have decent foresight. Or, at the least, I have a damn good feel for this team and/or Willie Randolph's thinking. I'd like to draw your attention to my previous post (below), dated Monday, July 18, an off-day on the schedule for the New York Mets. Now, if you'd be so kind, peruse the Mets' lineup for tonight's game of Tuesday, July 19. And then take a look at just about any Mets game story or notes column and see what they're talking about.
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SALSA!
The SASL Assistant
Please write me with comments
SALSA! II for the PC is here!
The new, improved version.
[SALSA! II]
SALSA! for Red Barricades is here!
If you have tried playing the Red Barricades missions from the ASL Journal, you have already seen these behemoth's need for SALSA!
[SALSA! for Red Barricades]
SALSA 1.0
I need to apologize for those wanting the new 1.0 version. While it was virtually ready to be released, other commitments have usurped it. I plan to release as time permits, perhaps by this fall. The 1.0 version was only going to add some bug fixes and additional nationalities. If you can live without solitaire Italians or Dutch trucks, please feel free to download the existing version.
What is SALSA!?
A Solitaire ASL Assistant for the Macintosh and Windows
[Introduction] [System Requirements and Downloading] [Q] [What's New?]
SALSA! is a game assistant for playing SASL by automating die rolling sequences such as S? Activation, unit selection and attack priorities. It was designed to be used portables setup next to the SASL game itself. By automating the sequences, it is intended to simplify play by reducing excessive chart referencing and speeding up removing die rolling routines. It is not intended to be a computer replacement system for ASL nor automate the logic. While that may happen in much more distance releases, it is designed to encourage SASL and make SASL easier, quicker and, hence, more enjoyable.
SALSA!, the SASL Assistant, is by no means complete. There is substantial work still required and many options have been omitted for time restraints. I encourage all comments and will develop this aid as time and schedule permits. Feel free to contact me directly or check for periodic updates. As always it is available on both platforms, Macintosh and Windows.
As a bonus, read my Design Notes.
Windows 95/98 or later, or
Windows NT 4 or later
SALSA! runs under Windows 3.1, but future
computability is not guaranteed. It has also been tested under NT 5, aka Windows 2000.
500k available memory.
Any Macintosh (PPC or 68k)
Color, Gray scale or B/W
Download SALSA! 0.9.6
SALSA! for Windows
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[William Walwyn], A True and Ful Relation (6 December, 1648).
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This is part of the Leveller Collection of Tracts and Pamphlets Project.
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T.163 [1648.12.06] [William Walwyn], A True and Ful Relation (6 December, 1648).
[William Walwyn], A True and Ful Relation of the officers and Armies forcible seising of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, Decemb. 6. & 7. 1648. As also, a true copy of a letter lately written by an agent for the Army in Paris, dated 28 of Novemb. 1648, to a Member of the said House, a great creature and patriot of the Army; Clearly discovering, That their late remonstrance and proceedings do drive on and promote the Jesuits and Papists designes, to the subversion of religion, Parliament, monarchy, and the fundamental laws and government of the Kingdom.
London, Printed in the yeer 1648.
This tract contains the following parts:
A true Narrative of the Officers and Armies forcible seizing and suspending of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, December 6, & 7. 1648.
The names of the imprisoned Members.
A true Copie of a Letter written by an Independent Agent for the Army
6 December, 1648.
THe Officers and Councell of the Army, being discontented with the Votes passed in the Commons House upon a long and serious Debate (which continued all Munday, and Munday night last, till Tuesday morning about 9 of the clock) to this effect, That the Kings person was removed out of the Isle of Wight by the Generals Command, without the knowledg or consent of the House. And, That the Kings answers to the Propositions of both Houses upon the Treaty, were a sufficient ground for the house to proceed to the settlement of a safe and wel-grounded Peace. On Wednesday, the sixth of this instant December, 1648. placed strong Guards of the Army (as well Horse as Foot) in the Palace yard, Westminster-hall, the Court of Requests, and in the stairs and Lobby leading to the Commons-house, where Col. Pride (who commanded the Guards that day) Sir Hardresse Waller, and other Officers, violently seized upon divers Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons house in the Parliament stairs and Lobby, as they were going to the House, to sit and discharge their duties there, and by plain force thrust and carried them prisoners into the Queens-Court, notwithstanding their open protestations of breach of Priviledg of Parliament, without having any warrant for such commitment but their Swords, or assigning any cause at all but their own arbitrary wills: and there kept them prisoners under a strong Guard, denying them liberty of access to the House, which they desired. Mr. Edward Stevens and Col. Birch being gotten into the House before their seizures, were called to the door by feared Messages sent to them by the Officers, under other mens names, and there seized on, and violently pulled out of the House, though they cryed out to the Speaker to take notice of the horrid force upon them; and so were haled thence into the Queens Court; Harry Martin the Horse stealer, though in actuall Rebellion against the House, and formerly ejected out of it, being in the mean time admitted to sit as a competent Member. The House being informed of this strange violence offered to their Members by those who professed themselves their Servants and Protectors, sent the Sergeant of the House to the Queens Court, to demand the Members there detained, and required their attendance in the House: Which Message, though delivered, was disobeyed, wherewith he acquainting the House: Thereupon the House sent the Serjeant forth with the Mace, to fetch away the imprisoned Members, but the Soldiers and Officers violently kept him back at the Door, and would not suffer him to execute their command. Hereupon the House resolved not to proceed till these Members were restored, yet notwithstanding the Officers stil proceeded to seiz more Members, as they came to, or went from the House, carrying them all Prisoners to the Court aforesaid. About three of the clock in the afternoon, Hugh Peter with a sword by his side, like a boisterous Souldier came rushing in to see the Prisoners, and take a list of their names, by order from the Generall, as he alledged; where some of the Prisoners demanding of him, by what authority they were thus imprisoned and kept from their duty, he answered, By the power of the Sword; and returning thither soon after, he released Sir Benjamin Ruddier and Mr. Nathaniel Fiennes (as he said) by the like power of the Sword.
Night drawing on, the Prisoners desired the Capt. who guarded them, to desire Col. Pride to speak with them, to the end they might know by what authority, and for what cause they were thus detained by him, being Members. The proud Colonel returned this Answer, That he had other imployment for the present, that he could not wait upon them. Soon after Hugh Peter and some other Officers acquainted them, that they should all be removed to Wallingford House, where they should have all fitting accommodations provided for them, and where the General and Lieut. Gen. would come and speak with them, and that Coaches were provided to carry them thither: upon this assurance, the Prisoners went all from the Queens Court, to take coach at the Lords stairs, where Coaches attending them, in stead of being carryed to Wallingford House as was promised and expected, they were stayed at the back-gate of Hell, (a common Victualling-house so called) and there thrust all into the common dining-Room, and after that translated into two upper Chambers. When it grew late, Sir Robert Pye and some six more were offered liberty to go to their lodgings (being neer) upon their paroll, to appear before the General the next morning: who conceiving it inconsistent with the Priviledge of Parliament, and a prejudice to their Cause, refused to give any other paroll, then to appear in the House the next morning; which being not accepted, they were all inforced to remain in Hell that night, most of them having no other beds to rest their heads on (though ancient and infirm, and Gentlemen of Honour) but the floor of the Room, and Benches and Chairs: yet they patiently underwent this affront and duresse in Hell it self (culled out of purpose to put a meer signal brand of contempt and infamy upon them and the Parliament) reading and singing Psalms to God, spending most of the night in Discourses and walking, without taking one minutes rest or sleep. It was a very sad spectacle to see so many eminent and Honourable Members of Parliament so uncivilly and discourteously used by their domineering Servants, who exceeded all Regal and Prelatical Tyranny in former times; which afforded convenient lodgings and accommodations to their Prisoners. The Provost Marshal (under whose custody they were unworthily put as Malefactors) was so ashamed of this dishonorable usage, that after some conference concerning it, he repaired to the General to White-hall, to acquaint him with it, and receive his further Order.
The next morning (being Thursday) the Prisoners expecting the issue, he returned to them about 11 of the clock, and acquainted them, that it was the Generals pleasure they should all wait forthwith upon him and his Councel of War at White-Hall, where he desired to conferr with them: whereupon, they were presently put into Coaches and carried to White Hall like Traytors or Felons, with strong Guards of Horse and Foot attending them, and there brought into the Kings Lodgings fasting, and tired out with watching the night before: where arriving about 12 of the clock, they expected a present Answer. But our new Grandees and great Councel of the Army took so much Royal State upon them, as to make them wait their leisure til it was night before they vouchsafed to send them any answer, at which time, disdaining to call the imprisoned Members in, or to honour them with their more them Lordly presence, they sent out 3 Officers to acquaint then with this dilatory answer, That other intervenient affairs of great concernment were now in agitation before the General and his Councel, so as they could not admit them to their presence that night, as was expected; and that the General and his Councel, for their better accommodation, had given order that they should be lodg'd at 2 Inns in the Strand, to wit, the Swan and the Kings Head, for that night, where they should receive from them the next morning some Propositions to be considered of. After which, the Provost Marshal taking the names of those who were to be lodged at the Kings Head, and a list of those who were to be conducted to the Swan, carried them all prisoners to the said Inns thorow the streets in the dirt on foot (except some 6 or 7 onely, who were lame and aged) with a Musketier attending upon every one of them in particular, and a strong Guard marching before, behinde, and on one side of them, like so many Traytors and capital Malefactors, to the great admiration and discontent of all persons wel affected to the Parliament, and joy & rejoycing to all Malignants, Papists, and Cavaliers, who, had they been conquerors of the Parliament, could not have used them with more rigour, scorn and disdain then these pious Saints and Grandees of the Army have done, before they have attainted them of any particular crime or breach of trust; whereof the whole Kingdom can declare all or most of them innocent.
Being brought Prisoners to the said Inns, they had strong Guards set upon them, and a Sentinel at every chamber door all night. Thus do these new usurpers of a more then Regal and Tyrannical power, trample upon the Members of the House of Commons (their former Masters) as if they were no better then the dirt in the street; and to exasperate the cõmon souldiers against them, have slandered the imprisoned Members, to be the only detainers of their pay; when as none of them ever fingered one penny of their moneys: and if any Members be guilty of such a crime, it must be those who have most relation to the Army, and professe themselves their greatest friends.
Thursday morning the Officers and Army guarding the House in the same manner as on Wednesday, some of their Officers standing at the Commons door with a List of Parliament mens names in their hands, demanded every Members name as he came to the door to enter the House, and those whose names were in their List, they forcibly excluded the House, and turned down the stairs, though they earnestly pressed for entrance: and some of them acquainted the Speaker by Letter with the high affront and breach of Priviledge; but could finde no redresse, the Officers admitting onely such who were not in the List: About 40 Members were thus forcibly excluded, but not imprisoned; onely Mr. Gewen was seised upon by one of Col. Hewsons Officers, carried prisoner to the Queens Court, and from thence to White-hall to the rest of the imprisoned Members, who were there attending upon the General and his Councel: This day the Great Conqueror Lieut. Gen. Cromwel entered the Commons House, and received thanks for his great services, which had been more Honourable for him to receive in a full and free House, then in an empty and forced; the House (by reason of the restrained and excluded Members, with others driven away by this horrid violence) being not above 80. in Number, having formerly resolved not to proceed till their Members were restored, and the force upon them removed; after some debate and opposition, the House was divided upon this Question, whether they should now proceed or not? which was carryed in the affirmative, 50. voting in the affirmative, and 28. or 30. in the negative, that they should not; who presently left the House, most of them resolving to come no more till the House and Members were righted; this done, to abuse and mock as well God as men, they appointed Friday for a solemne Humiliation, to be kept in that House, not to expiate the Armies open violation of their Priviledges, force and breach of Faith, both to God and the Parliament, which had been commendable, but to procure a blessing on the forcible and unparliamentall proceedings, for the subversion of Monarchy, Religion, Lawes, Liberties, and three Kingdomes in a moment: dethroning and beheading the King, and desinheriting his Posterity, and introducing a popular Anarchy and Tyranny under the power of a perfidious Army, worse then any slavery under the great Turk: The Lord humble them in good earnest for these crying sins and treasons, and either convert their hearts, or confound all their treasonable destructive devices of this kind, which will render them infamous to the present and all future Generations, and bring them unto speedy ruine, notwithstanding all their present usurped power. It is beleived by divers understanding men of great experience, that the Jesuits have laid this plot, and fomented these distempers in the Army, by the Agitators, some of them being Jesuits, others Anabaptists, leavened with Jesuiticall principles; who over-reach the honest-minded and plain-hearted Christians in the Army by their speciall pretences of Justice, and speedy setling of the Common-Weale, but in such a way as will bring all to suddain confusion, and make our three Kingdomes a prey to the Popish party; and our forraign Popish enemies, who will make Bonefires of joy in Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, and other forraign parts for this unparaleld force upon the Houses, and the designes of the Army now in prosecution.
Friday morning the imprisoned Members expected a Message from the Generall and his Councell, according to promise; but they received none, such is their dilatorinesse and fidelity in point of promise, onely one came with a message from the Generall to Sir Robert Harley to this effect, that he might go home to his house, and continue there, so as he would give his word not to oppose the present actings and proceedings of the House or Army, varying in his expressions; at which Sir Robert desired time to advise with his fellow prisoners, being a matter which equally concerned them; the like offer was since made to Sir John Merrick, by which it is apparent, that all these prisoners crime is onely the discharge of their duty, in opposing the present designes and actions of the Army, to subvert the fundamentall Lawes, Liberties and Government of the Kingdome, and the ancient forme of Parliaments; for which treason Strafford & Canterbury lost their heads by judgment of this very Parliament.
By all these passages, compared with the Armies late Remonstrance and Declaration, it is most perspicuous to all the Kingdome,
1. That the Officers and Army have offered far greater violence to the Priviledges, Houses, and Members of Parliament, and acted more towards the dissolution of this present, and subversion of all future Parliaments, then ever the King or his Cavaliers, the Gunpowder traytors, Germyn or Percy did; or the Reformadoes and London Apprentices did, whom yet the Officers and Army declared against, and prosecuted as Traytors, though they neither imprisoned nor kept back any Member from the Houses.
2. That they have violated their Covenants, Oaths, Trusts, and solemne ingagements to the Parliament, City, Country and Kingdome, in as high or higher degree as ever the King and his evill Counsellors did, in invading the priviledges, forcing the Houses, imprisoning the Members of Parliament, and indeavouring by open force to subvert the fundamentall Government, Lawes, Liberties and Customes of the Realme, and the Ancient frame and being of Parliaments, for defence of all which they were raised, and covenanted to fight for and maintain.
That they have usurped a far greater and more dangerous, arbitrary and tyrannicall power, over both Houses of Parliament, and their Members, and over the persons and estates of their fellow-Subjects, then ever the King, or the worst of his Counsellors did, and that under the feigned pretences of present necessity, and common safety, of which they make themselves the only supreme Iudges, not the Parliament, as the King did in the case of Ship-money: and therefore they must either justifie or acquit the King & his party from all those charges & objections against him in their late Remonstrance, for which they presse the Houses in point of justice, both to depose and execute him as a Traitor to the Common-wealth, or els incur the self-same crime and guilt, and subject themselves to the same judgment and execution, which they desire to be inflicted upon Him and His.
M. Wheeler. Col. Ed. Harley.
M. Lane. M. Swinsen.
Sir Samuel Luke. M. Crew.
Sir Thomas Soame. M. Ed. Stephens.
Sir Benjamin Ruddierd. M. Buller.
Sir Richard Anslow. Sir Gilbert Gerrard.
Sir Robert Pye. M. Gerrard.
Sir Anthony Irby. M. Nath. Fines.
M. Clement Walker. Sir Simon d'Ewes.
M. William Prynne. Sir William Lewes.
M. Bunkley. Sir Iohn Clotworthy.
Major Generall Massey. Lord Wenman.
Sir Walter Erle. Colonell William Strode.
M. Greene. Commissary Copley.
Colonell Birch. M. Vaughan of Exeter.
M. Boughton. Sir Harbottle Grimstone.
Colonell Leigh. M. Prisley.
M. Henry Pelham. M. Gewen seized upon Thursday.
M. Drake.
Sir William Waller. Sir Henry Cholmley seized at his lodging, and sent prisoner to the Crowne.
Sir John Merrick.
Sir Martin Lister.
Sir Robert Harley.
Psal. 55. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
For it was not an enemie that reproached me, then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hurted me, that did magnifie himselfe against me, then I could have hid my selfe from him. But it was thou, a man mine equall, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsell together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Let death seize upon them, and let them goe downe quick into hell: for wickednesse is in their dwellings, and amongst them. As for me, I will call upon God: and the Lord shall save me.
A true Copie of a Letter written by an Independent Agent for the Army, from Paris in France, to an Independent Member of the House of Commons, a great Creature and Patriot of the Army. Extracted out of the originall.
Deare Sir,
I Was exceeding glad to receive the Doctors lines, that intimated your recovery from that distemper that had seized upon you; I doubt not but it had this effect upon you, to let you see, what a fraile thing our bodies are, and what need we have to be sure of our building not made with hands, reserved in heaven for us.
I am at present (praised be God) indifferent well, the place where I am, in respect of all outward accommodations, very well agreeing with me, and very much exceeding England, onely defective in this, that I cannot find a M. Westrow, nor Doctor Stanes here, to make a bosome-friend; and yet in that it is not altogether so barren as I did, and you may well imagine it: I am fallen into the acquaintance of three or foure Catholikes of very great ingenuity, and in their way of much Religion: undoubtedly it is an error to look at all Papists through the same perspective; for they are more to be differenced then English Papists can be. I find their opinion of, and dependence upon the Pope, little, or nothing what we imagine it to be, and better principled to make members of a Commonwealth, then the most English. Their opposition to the King is not to be reconciled; their hopes are now upon the Army, to whom they wish all prosperity, as to the setling of a Representative, being extremely distasted with Regall hereditary power throughout the world.
It seems my Lord Say hath undertaken to procure a Passe from the House for Sir Kellam Digby to come over to England; he is not, according to your rule, a Delinquent, but it seems came over into France by the House of Commons Licence, acquitted from any crime. Let me desire you when it comes to be moved in your House, give it the best promotion you can; one would think a businesse so reasonable should find no opposition: But to such a constitution as you are of, no man can tell what is reasonable. He never was in Armes, and I believe, can easily answer any thing that can be objected (save his Religion) why he should be from under Sequestration. Let me intreat you to speak to as many of your acquaintance as you can, that when it comes to be moved, it may not be repulsed. I could heartily wish you and Mrs. Westrow, and the Doctor had a good occasion to bring you over into France; (if so) I should not think of returning into England whilest you stayed. I have no more at present, but my own and wifes best respects to you and Mrs. Westrow, I remaine,
Paris, 28. Novemb.
Your very assured friend,
By this Letter it is apparent,
That the Jesuited Papists in France are in such opposition to our King for his compliance with his Houses of Parliament to settle the Kingdome, and extirpate Masse and Popery, that they are not to be reconciled to him, and therefore indeavour to depose and bring him to execution, and disinherit his posterity.
That their hopes to effect this their designe against, and execute this their revenge upon the King, are now upon the Army, to whom they wish all prosperity.
That they foment, and prosecute with their prayers and advice, the Armies new Modell for setling of a Representative in Parliament, of purpose to dissolve this present Parliament, (which hath acted so much against them and their Popish Religion, and is now giving it its finall and fatall blow, if they and the King shall close) and to subvert all Parliaments for the future, for feare of falling into the like danger by them.
That Independents, and friends of the Army have a far better opinion of Roman Catholikes, then English Protestants; as being better principled to make members of a free Commonwealth then they: And therefore are more likely to favour, and close with Roman Catholikes, then English Protestants, in carrying on their new designes, expressed in their late Remonstrance.
That the Jesuites and Roman Catholikes are extremely distasted with Regall hereditary power throughout the world, the onely obstacle to their designes, in subverting the Protestant Religion, and making all Kingdoms meere vassalls to the Pope and Sea of Rome; and therefore the Officers and Army in prosecuting their Remonstrance, and new intended Representative, and subverting Regall hereditary power, do most apparently carry on nought else but the very Jesuites and Roman Catholikes Interests and designes, and accomplish their desires, either wittingly or willingly, as acting by their principles, if not counsells, and aiming at their very ends; which is high time for all wise and well-affected Protestants both in the Army, Parliament and City, and our three Kingdoms, most seriously to consider and prevent the imminent ruine and destruction even of our Reformed Religion it self, and our hereditary Monarchy, the present and all succeeding Parliaments; our lives, Liberties and Kingdomes, all now drawing to their fatall period, by the heady violence, trechery and disobedience of that very Army, which hath been raised, cried up, and trusted upon too much, as their onely Saviours, for which God in justice may now make them their principall and sudden destroyers, unlesse both they and we repent.


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According to a report from the Express, Tottenham are monitoring Leicester City winger Demarai Gray ahead of a potential January swoop.
After drawing blanks in the previous two transfer windows, Mauricio Pochettino splashed top dollar on new signings this summer.
The likes of Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Ryan Sessegnon and Jack Clarke were signed over the summer, although the latter returned to Leeds United on a season-long loan.
Despite spending heavily, Spurs still have plenty of gaps to plug in their squad. A new right-back continues to be a priority after the departure of Kieran Trippier but Pochettino might as well start looking for a new centre-back, with Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen both out of contract at the end of the season.
Thus, it makes complete sense for Pochettino to look forward to the January transfer window. But do Tottenham need Demarai Gray at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium? Truth be told, Spurs should stay away from the Leicester winger.
Despite securing a regular starting place under both Claude Puel and Brendan Rodgers, Demarai Gray, 23, hasn't quite reached the levels Foxes fans would have expected when he signed from Birmingham in January 2016.
He has only produced eight goals and five assists from his last 83 appearances for Leicester, a stat which doesn't read well at all.
Gray may be blessed with plenty of pace, power and dribbling skills, as well as potential, but he has been extremely inconsistent for the Foxes. His time at the King Power Stadium hasn't been all bad.
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He scored the goal at Cardiff City stadium in Leicester's first game after the tragic death of Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
There have been a lot of ups and downs for Gray at Leicester. However, with the Englishman having made over 100 Premier League appearances at a tender age of 23, we may have seen enough of the nippy wide-man to suggest that this is the best he will ever be.
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There is no doubting Gray is talented, exciting and is capable of producing moments of magic on the pitch but he's struggling to break into Rodgers' XI this season.
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Gray is just 23 and certainly has his best years ahead of him. Whether he develops into a truly elite winger in the future remains to be seen but Spurs should not pursue the under-21 England international's signature.
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The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.A mirror of the PacLII website is hosted by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), and is the version accessed by most users outside the Pacific Islands.

The documents on the PacLII website consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals and panels or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. There is additionally a Pacific Islands Treaty Database.

PacLII is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law Movement, a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.

USP School of Law has its headquarters in Port Vila. Its students come from more than 12 Pacific Island countries. Most of them do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.

References
 Blake R 'Islands in Time: The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PACLII)' Proc. 4th Law via Internet Conference, Montreal, 2002
 Hoping R and Hulama J 'Publishing of Laws in Papua New Guinea' [2005] CompLRes 6; Proc. 6th Law via Internet Conference, Vila, Vanuatu, 2005
 Section on PacLII in Greenleaf, G Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement, GlobaLex website, February 2008

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The birdman of academia
This piece by me, about birdwatching at the office, is in the Times Higher this week:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410844&c=2
Note to the sisters: mea non culpa on the un-PC headline, which the sub-editor chose after rejecting my admittedly lame original (see above).
Incidentally, there is some quite good stuff about motorways in Mark Cocker's book Birders: Tales of Tribe (which I mention in the article), because the golden age of twitching in the 1960s and 1970s was also the golden age of hitchhiking. So a large sub-group of hitchhikers in this period was made up of birdwatchers travelling to remote parts of Britain to see exotic birds. "Back then," Cocker writes, "if you could have got into some hypothetical control module in space where you could monitor birders' movements around Britain's road networks, the screen would have appeared as an endless chaos of random blips, each one representing young twitchers hitching back and forth across the country. There would have been occasional patterns – clusters heading towards Norfolk in May, a brief lull in July, a further rush towards Shetland in September, or Cornwall in October."
Survival of the fittest
Me on the map
On doing the dishes
Motorway sightseeing
The everyday remains
The golden age of telly
Mr Cube the sugar lump
Unbroken Britain


The difference between employees that have a lot of individual potential and those that really add value to your department or company is their ability to work together as a team.
Corporate Teambuilding Activities provide the perfect environment for you to work on motivating your employees by getting them to work together as a team. The team that you create while at a Corporate Teambuilding Venue will become your company's most valuable asset. It's a bonus if you can find a Teambuilding Venue that provides Teambuilding Events and exercises that build sense of togetherness and cohesiveness among your employees.
The first step at the Corporate Teambuilding Venue is to have an icebreaking session that allows employees to share a little more about them than they might in the workplace. Many people who work together have superficial relationships, but getting to know more about each other will allow employees to care about the success of their coworkers because they care about them as people. When employees are willing to work with others success in mind, the whole team will certainly benefit.
After the initial icebreaker session at the Conference Venue, the workshop moves on to exercises that require employees to work together towards a common goal. It could be something quite physical such as building a bridge or moving heavy objects. The tasks themselves are not important, what is important is that they cannot be completed by an individual so all the employees have to work together as a team. These exercises at the Corporate Teambuilding Venue will have clear goals and there are no individual scores, so everyone is encouraged to work together. These same philosophies of teamwork and helping should carry over to the workplace, but they are easier to create in a separate environment that is much less complicated.
Teamwork in the office environment is much harder to manage because individual performance goals sometimes conflict with the goals of the team as a whole. The modern workforce is so compartmentalized and specialized, that sometimes employees can lose sight of the greater good. Focusing on their own performance reviews and tasks and choices that benefit them personally may distract focus from what is best for the company. Time spent at the Corporate Teambuilding Venue will help to refocus these priorities.
In addition, a visit to a Conference Venue for teambuilding is a lot of fun. Work is not always fun, but if your employees know each other and care about each other, they will be happier and more productive.


Denver and Colorado Wineauxs…. Here's a great chance to drink some great boutique California Wines while supporting two great causes…Don't miss it!
Blanchard Family Wines and Distant Cellars, two of my favorite California wineries with Colorado ties, are hosting their first ever joint wine release party here in Denver. These two family-owned wineries, both located in Northern California, have owners that live and serve here in Colorado.
James Blanchard, from Blanchard Family Wines, serves as an Air Force helicopter pilot while running half of his family winery, while Drew Gaiser from Distant Cellars serves as a local Colorado Firefighter while running the Colorado arm of his family winery.
James and Drew will be hosting a wine release event at the University of Denver's Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality on August 21st from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Both wineries have significant charitable arms and in addition to pouring several of their top selections, will be pouring wines that support great causes and new release wines never before shared..
Blanchard Family Wines will be pouring Jessi's Red to benefit the Jessica Redfield Scholarship Foundation, in memory of Jessica Redfield, who was killed in the Aurora theater shootings. Distant Cellars will be pouring their Tribute Red Blend, a wine dedicated to raising funds for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
The wine tasting will be accompanied with amazing small bites from Executive Chef Michel Wahaltere of Dorchester Social Eatery and delectable tastes from Izzybelle Chocolates. Grab a glass of wine and visit exhibits from local artists Christopher Owen Nelson and Todd Perkins.
Tickets are only $15 and include a commemorative logo glass. Registration can be completed at the following link: https://boutiquewinetasting.eventbrite.com/. Wine Club members from either winery can get two free tickets by contacting their respective winery for a discount code.


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Sex Stereotyping Blast from the Past
June 18, 2019 November 24, 2019 ~ Paisley Currah	~ Leave a comment
Searching through old boxes of briefs last week, I came upon Ann Hopkin's brief to the Supreme Court, filed by her attorneys James H. Heller and Douglas B. Huron in 1988. For those who don't have access to the subscription databases (and it may not even be there) or to an SC depository library, here it is. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, Brief for Respondent, June 1988. The scanning job is not perfect, so be forewarned.
Why Trump's ban on trans people serving in the military matters to trans civilians
August 13, 2018 October 5, 2018 ~ Paisley Currah	~ Leave a comment
I know some trans people aren't interested the fight over Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. But, as I learned Friday at the Transgender Law Institute, if the ban is upheld by the Supreme Court, its effects will go far beyond the armed forces. According to Shannon Minter, "the negative ramifications of a loss in the courts will be terrible." Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which, with GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders, is challenging the ban in the courts.
A little background: In June of 2016, the Department of Defense announced that transgender people could serve openly in the military. The military would also provide transition related medical care.
Six months into his first term, Trump announced via (where else) Twitter that the ban would be put back in place.
The same massive bureaucratic apparatus that had, after a year of research, found the ban irrational and developed a thorough implementation plan for allowing trans people to serve openly and provide transition related medical care was forced to do a 180 degree turn and come up with a justification for reversing the policy.
And did it ever. In February of this year, Secretary of Defense James Mattis released a report that recommended reinstating the ban. Most of the arguments supporting the recommendation were boilerplate right wing drivel: the ideas of people with penises showering with women, the "disproportionate cost" of provision of transition related care, and ye olde "unit cohesion" defense. Trans rights advocates have lots of experience responding to these tired canards. You can see how they do so in reply briefs here and here.
The fourth justification is the most worrisome. It takes state-sponsored transphobia to new heights by questioning the very validity of transition-related medical care as a treatment for gender dysphoria. In our brave new post-truth world, Mattis's underlings cherry-picked unfounded, unpublished, and highly selective research to suggest that hormone therapy and/or surgery do little to help transgender people.
This argument jibes with the right wing's anti-transgender agenda, most clearly articulated in Ryan Anderson's When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement (Encounter Books, 2018), which suggests that transgender people need compassion, but not equal treatment or transition related medical care. You can see this agenda in the new Department of Defense policy: "Transgender persons" without a diagnosis gender dysphoria can serve in their "biological sex." (Biological sex here means sex assigned at birth.) According to the report, the policy is not a ban on trans people per se, just a ban on people who happen to share the defining characteristic of transgender people–a disconnect between one's gender identity and the sex assigned at birth.
A reasonable person might think that truth will ultimately prevail, that a policy that ignores the medical and psychiatric consensus and that discounts the lived experiences of hundreds of thousands of transgender people cannot stand. But this is the same administration that changed the rules to allow asbestos, a known carcinogen, into new products. This is the same administration that has proposed rolling back fuel economy standards, despite the fact that its justification is a "denial of basic science."
Eventually, these cases will be heard by the Supreme Court. If the Court decides that the ban is constitutional, it won't just affect those who want to serve in the military. The Court's imprimatur on a report that rejects the idea that surgery and hormones are effective treatments for gender dysphoria will have alarming ripple effects in every area where advocates are working to ensure that trans people get the medical care they need, from prisons to workplaces to public benefit programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. If the Court ultimately sides with the Department of Defense, the transition-related health care of those of us not in the military could well be affected. The Court's opinion would certainly be used to justify decisions not to pay for surgery or hormones.
I want to put the Department of Defense policy in a larger historical context. Before Trump, transgender people were harmed by sex classifications in laws and policies designed to give men more rights and resources or to use M/F for surveillance purposes in descriptions in state records and on identity documents. As I argue in my forthcoming book, trans people were not the intended targets of these policies, we just found ourselves occupying the residual category of legal sex classifications—we're what the system didn't anticipate. Even though it's no longer constitutional to treat men and women differently, classifying people as M or F is still baked into law and policy.
That's why the battle in the first decades of the transgender rights movement has been to show that the category of women includes trans women and vice versa, that sex and gender discrimination laws cover trans people, that the M or F assigned at birth might not turn out to be the right one for the individual. Over time, these efforts have started to succeed and courts, administrative agencies, and legislatures are coming around. Of course there has been resistance, but it has been gradually evaporating as a result of education and the immense number of trans people coming out.
But the ground has shifted with the Trump administration. Now transgender advocates are no longer fighting accidental erasure. While previous conservative administrations took a more passive approach by simply not supporting trans rights, Trump and Pence are working to codify transphobia by enshrining it in policy across as many agencies as possible. (Their efforts were anticipated by attempts in red state legislatures to make bathroom access based on the sex assigned at birth.) With the Department of Defense policy, transgender issues have been politicized to a degree never yet seen. (Okay, I am overstating the difference in transphobia before and after Trump a little, but the I do think 2017 marked a real shift.)
One might argue that transgender rights movement lost something when it was packaged as a new identity politics group. Absent a handful of historical contingencies—transphobia among second wave feminists, the intensity of the pathologization of transsexuality, Reagan, the revanchist 1980s and the move to assimilate to the norms of the market–it might have been possible to articulate equality for people whose gender identity or expression confounded traditional expectations with broader movements for distributive justice. Socialist feminism, with its attention to bodies, the imbrication of capitalism and gender norms, and the material conditions that make life livable, would have been a better option.
In any case, identity politics, meshing neatly with neoliberalism, was to provide a path to acceptance into the status quo. The neoliberal contract with identity politics was to guarantee formal inclusion, representation, and political equality in exchange for abandoning more radical claims to justice. Writing about black movements for equality, Asad Haider suggests identity politics is "the neutralization of movements against racial oppression." And the same could be said, has been said, about transgender identity politics.
But the Trump/Pence administration has upended all that, it has canceled the contract. Working closely with the organized religious right, trans identity itself has become a target, as the DoD report makes clear. The trans rights movement now finds itself in the unenviable position of fighting the right wing's policitization of trans identity with a politics that was conceived when diversity and inclusion were considered positive values. It might be time to shift to a new terrain.
Locker Rooms are the New Bathrooms–Bodily privacy and the opposite sex
May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 ~ Paisley Currah	~ 3 Comments
Locker rooms are the new bathrooms. Officials in Maryland are in court to keep 16-year-old Max Alexander Brennan out of the boys' locker room. According to the Washington Post, school administrators "have said they must look out for all students, who have a right to 'bodily privacy' and should not be forced to undress in front of the opposite biological sex."
Of course, the idea of "biological sex" is nonsense, and in more than only way. How will these officials define biological sex–as the sex assigned at birth, as a post or "partially" transitioned body, or as gender identity? It's gender identity that's the criterion for M/F classification on drivers' licenses in 32 states, and for US passports. In fact, as I argue in my book, there's no there there when it comes to deciding who is F and who is M. In the past, what sex is depended on what sex does for a particular institution. More recently, it's become a particularly charged site for the re-prosecution of the culture wars. During the Obama administration, gender identity became the metric for F or M in a number of departments, from Education to Housing and Urban Development. The Trump/Pence administration is not so enamored of officials interpreting sex to include gender identity. (Neither were our friends at Jacobin: for them, sex means as assigned at birth until legislators decide otherwise). That's why the Trump/Pence crown has been undoing these regulations wherever they can. At least the feds have zero ability to rollback progressive state policies. (Go states! Yay federalism!)
Still, let's stipulate that biological sex is just one thing (which it's not)–defined, say, by the presence or absence of penises, breasts, or vaginas. Even so, those appendages don't stare at people, people do–1990s SNL skits notwithstanding. Of course, the messiness of a concept like biological sex in no way prevents state actors from using the force of law to clean it up, give it a shave and haircut, and declare that it's simply common sense. Judges, state agencies, legislatures can and do define who is male and who is female. Much as many of us would like to get states out of the business of telling people whether they are women or men or even gender non-binary, we still have a long way to go. But good luck trying to wrest people's gender identity from them. In many of the older cases on sex classification, even judges who found that transsexual women were "really" men, and vice versa, would often use the respectful pronoun. In locker rooms, birth certificates aren't floating around looking for a place to change and a hook for their clothes, people are–with all our complex desires, identifications, and contradictions.
Aside from the nuttiness of worrying about "female" vaginas looking at "male" penises and vice versa, there's a larger problem here. The idea of bodily privacy is important, in itself and also because it can be the springboard for more substantive rights, such as the right to bodily integrity and autonomy. But why is bodily privacy thought only to mandate protection from the presence of the "opposite sex"? Because…heterosexuality, of course, and because of the gender binary that underwrites it, and–this is where the opposition to trans students come in–because of the assumption that sex is what's between your legs. In the ideal locker room of the right, everyone is 100 percent straight, everyone's gender identity matches the sex assigned to them at birth, and no one is looking at anything other than the soap dispenser. ("Keep your eyes to yourself," the locker room etiquette sign–see below–admonishes.) Everyone is equally fit, equally able-bodied, and equally beautiful in each others' eyes. And all the sexualized body parts conform to the Lake Wobegon rule–everyone's bits are (equally) above average. There's no judgment, no comparison, definitely no desire to have or to be another body.
That would be unlike every locker room I've ever been in. While conservatives are worrying about what's underneath my towel, I'm fretting about what's hanging out above it. As someone who is a step or three beyond the dad bod, I'm concentrating on sucking it in on the walk to my locker.
A right to bodily privacy that only cares about hetero/gender normativity, implemented through the blunt instrument of gender segregation–whatever the rule for classifying people as M or F–takes one aspect of our embodiment as its entirety. What about the right to not be seen by people who are fatphobic, by people who think colostomy bag is weird, by people who stare at scars, by people who judge someone for breast pumping, by people revolted by the aging body? Establishing bodily privacy will require much more imagination–and resources–to partially undo the hierarchies of difference established through the architecture of the locker room.
Finally, back to the transgender question–although the right has been scare-mongering about the (non-existent) dangers of transgender people in bathrooms for a few years now, public opinion is moving toward a gender identity standard for bathrooms. But with locker rooms, so-called reasonable people are still very susceptible to the notion that body parts shouldn't be in mixed company. Almost twenty years ago, Congressional Representative Barney Frank, one of the few gay rights advocates in Congress at the time, told trans advocates that "Transgendered people want a law that mandates a person with a penis be allowed to shower with women. They can't get that in ENDA [a federal non-discrimination bill]." That view didn't disappear with Frank's retirement. The locker room is the next phase of the right wing's assault.


Intersection, our Covenant Student Ministry youth group, meets at the First Covenant church house. We are open to students in grades 7-12, and visitors are always welcome.
Our Youth Director is Sara Diemer, and she is assisted by Cody Doremus, Graham League, Mark Andrews, Kristi Christianson, and Pastor Kevin Wright. Together they make a wonderful team, eager to serve the youth.
Our Wednesday evening meetings run from roughly 6:15pm - 8:45pm. We start with a time of sharing... we like to hear what's going on with everyone. Commonly, we will follow up with worship, games, dinner, and time to dig into God's Word. We are currently looking at those Bible stories you've heard 1,000 times, but maybe never really explored with the intensity that God intended.
Intersection meets year round and we typically do an annual retreat. We often go on mini-mission trips to places like JPUSA (Jesus People USA) or participate in Love Packages. We also sponsor a child through Compassion International. The youth have the opportunity to give weekly to our twelve year old boy, Salvador, from El Salvador.
We have many outings throughout the year. Some are service-oriented activities, such as raking leaves or serving at a local homeless shelter. Other opportunities are for fun, fellowship and team building, such as paintballing or caving.
Sunday School meets Sundays at 9:00 AM in the youth house with a break over the summer and around Christmas. This is not your weekday 'School' of lectures and homework. Instead, the 'teacher' works to create a highly interactive discussion where the youth are encouraged to think and come up with answers and solutions on their own. This is done using the observation, interpretation, application method.
After spending two years going in depth through the gospel of Luke, in the Fall the students will take a journey with SCIENCE! and critically think and observe the evidence for creation or evolution. Then we will continue setting up a foundation in their faith by going through Genesis (without flannel graphs or filtered stories).


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In our Early Years department, assessment is predominantly made up of ongoing observations throughout every school day. Meaningful learning opportunities provide scope for our staff to monitor and record children's contributions across all 7 areas of the EYFS framework, whilst also helping them to plan the next steps for individual children. Throughout the school, our aim is for assessment procedures to be used as a tool to help guide future learning and ensure our children are challenged, supported and encouraged.
For each age band, and each area of learning, there is a series of statements relating to a child's development: for example, 'notices simple shapes and patterns in pictures'. Teachers will tick off these developmental statements as they see your child demonstrating them, throughout the school year. This information is reported to parents throughout the school year in line with our primary reporting timetable.
As a school, we implement the use of the online learning journal 'Tapestry'. This programme supports staff with recording children's achievements and assessing their learning through continual observations of each child's learning, through group activities, pieces of work, conversation and engagement in play.
Each staff member has their own log in details, and throughout the day will take photos and recordings of the students, then linking this as evidence to the appropriate area of learning. This enables us to record key moments in your child's development.


Silk, lace, muslin, taffeta, chiffon and satin.
In every instant of "Phantom Thread," fashion pours out of the frame and couture overwhelms the eye with bold elegance.
There are sleeves, crisp collars, bow ties, trimming, devilish coats and dress trains trailing behind. Fabric, and the bodies that give it shape enchants us.
I admit that when first entering the world of "Phantom Thread," I half-expected to encounter a swooning, Oscar bait-y, old-school romance.
Instead, I was met with a strange, alluring, often-funny film about secrets, sewing, obsession and the way power sways within relationships.
Set in 1950s London, the film follows designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), who makes dresses for the stars, with the assistance of his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville).
Reynold's life is disrupted by the arrival of Alma (Vicky Krieps) who becomes his lover and muse, and soon unravels his carefully constructed lifestyle.
Writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson, delicately crafts a film that is difficult to pin down, a kind of whirlwind in the style of Hitchcock.
This is Anderson's first outing as his own cinematographer.
What is most astonishing is his ability to capture suspense where it wouldn't usually belong in the movies: a character loudly buttering toast at the breakfast table, nervous models getting dressed for a fashion show, thread weaving deliciously through fabric.
Dense and engrossing, "Phantom Thread" moves along elegantly until it lags in its last half hour. It picks up and punches hard in its final moments.
Day-Lewis gives a strong performance, capturing the artist with a signature ferocity. He masterfully builds a character who, accustomed to the artificiality within his own profession and daily routine, prioritizes beautiful objects over living, breathing people.
Day-Lewis announced this would be his last film in a statement issued by his agent this past June.
Because of his acclaim, audiences might have been keen to focus on Day-Lewis, but it is the women of "Phantom Thread" that take over and make it worth seeing.
Krieps shines as Alma — restrained and strong-willed throughout — she holds every scene she's in. Unwavering, only a deep blush on her cheeks reveals any sign of emotional turmoil.
Claustrophobia, conflict and purpose blend together in her performance. The ultimate way in which she finds autonomy in her life with Woodcock is sublime, highlighting the film's effort to undo toxic masculinity.
Supported by handsome visuals and a tip-toeing piano score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood — which buries itself under your skin — there is something stark and opulent about this film that is exciting and puzzling.
In the way that a dress can be both beautiful and trivial, "Phantom Thread" shows how romance can be at once hypnotizing and viciously exasperating.
It doesn't present any easy answers, but it sneaks up on you. It's hard to shake it off after it's over.