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Les  Championnats du monde de gymnastique artistique ont eu lieu à Tokyo au Japon du 7 au .

Programme
Heures locales, CEST :

Vendredi
11:15 - 11:30 Cérémonie d'ouverture
11:30 - 21:30 Qualifications femmes

Samedi
11:30 - 21:30 Qualifications femmes

Dimanche
11:15 - 21:30 Qualifications hommes

Lundi
11:15 - 21:30 Qualifications hommes

Mardi
19:00 - 21:00 Finale concours général par équipes femmes

Mercredi
18:00 - 20:30 Finale concours général par équipes hommes

 Jeudi
18:00 - 19:45 Finale concours général individuel femmes

 Vendredi
19:00 - 21:30 Finale concours général individuel hommes

Samedi
13:55 - 15:35 Finales femmes : saut de cheval, barres asymétriques
13:30 - 16:00 Finales hommes : sol, cheval d'arçons, anneaux

Dimanche
14:25 - 16:10 Finales femmes : poutre, sol
14:00 - 16:35 Finales hommes : saut de cheval, barres parallèles, barre fixe
17:05 - 17:20 Cérémonie de clôture

Podiums

Résultats détaillés

Hommes

Concours général par équipes

 Berbecar landed on his back, therefore scored a 0.000.

Concours général individuel

Sol

Cheval d'arçons

Anneaux

Saut de cheval

Barres parallèles

Barre fixe

Femmes

Concours général par équipes

Concours général individuel

Le concours général des a eu lieu le mardi .

Saut de cheval

La compétition de saut de cheval a eu lieu le samedi .

Barres asymétriques

La compétition de barres asymétriques a eu lieu le samedi .

Poutre

La compétition de poutre a eu lieu le dimanche . Ana Porgras est la championne sortante mais ne parvient pas à se qualifier pour la finale. C'est le premier titre de championne du monde à la poutre de Sui Lu.

Sol

La compétition de sol a eu lieu le dimanche .

Voir aussi

 Championnats d'Europe de gymnastique artistique masculine 2011
 Championnats d'Europe de gymnastique artistique féminine 2011

Liens externes

Notes et références

2011
Gymnastique artistique
Gymnastique artistique 2011
Artistique Monde 2011
Artistique Monde
Sport au Japon en 2011
Sport en octobre 2011

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Sydney FC counts down to the official end of its 2008/09 campaign.
After a season of ups and downs which came to a close with a fighting 2-1 defeat in a friendly against Shanghai Shenhua last Saturday in China, Sydney FC will celebrate its campaign this Saturday when the club comes together for its annual end of season dinner and awards night at Star City.
Fox Sport presenter, Matt Russell will emcee the event, with players from all of Sydney-s sides, including the Sky Blue-s Championship-winning National Youth League team set to celebrate the milestones of 2008/09 and look towards what-s sure to be an exciting and successful season in 2009/10.
Click Here to view all 6 contenders for Fan's Goal of the Season.


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import org.seasar.dbflute.dbmeta.info.*;
import org.seasar.dbflute.helper.StringKeyMap;
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Oprah Winfrey Network has mixed success in first month
Robert Beatty— February 3, 2011
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK — As it neared its one-month mark, the Oprah Winfrey Network grew its prime-time audience by one-third over the network it replaced.
OWN's all-day viewership is up 25 percent over the year-ago audience for Discovery Health, the channel OWN claimed when it signed on Jan. 1.
Christina Norman, the network's CEO, called the first month "an encouraging start" and declared, "The idea works."
"The audience understands what this is supposed to be," Norman said Friday from the network's Los Angeles headquarters. "It is not a network built around a person. It's a network built around a person's world view."
That person, of course, is Oprah Winfrey, who will end her weekday syndicated talk show this spring to concentrate full-time on her cable startup which is available in 80 million homes.
An average of 297,000 viewers are watching OWN in prime time, with an average of 145,000 viewers tuned in during the full day, according to Nielsen Co. data measuring the network from Jan. 1 to Jan. 23.
OWN is a joint venture between Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications.
The network launched with seven new series, six of which, Norman said, have made a promising start.
The exception is Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star, which has experienced audience erosion.
"It hasn't really found its audience and that's kind of a drag," Norman said, "but you live and learn.''
Even so, it will air to its completion, with the winner of the competition awarded a show on OWN, as planned.
"Somebody's going to win and somebody's life is really going to change," Norman said.
This month, the network is introducing Our America With Lisa Ling, as well as What Would You Do?, an acquisition from ABC News, plus two more real-life series originally set for a later debut: Breaking Down the Bars, which takes viewers into a women's prison, and Searching For…, which follows the work of a professional investigative genealogist.
In daytime, The Gayle King Show, after two weeks on the air, is attracting an average of 118,000 viewers for its two daily airings.
But OWN has announced that plans for another daytime venture, a talk show similar to ABC's The View, have been scrapped.
"For me, it's about doubling down on what's working," Norman said. "We're focusing on Gayle and prime time. That's where our energy is best spent. The goal of OWN is to build it over the course of a year, as more new shows come on. We're still telling people where OWN is."
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Q: Getting error while using Chart.js  <ltng:require scripts="{!$Resource.chartJS}" afterScriptsLoaded="{!c.setup}"/>
    <canvas aura:id="chart" id="myChart" width="400" height="400"/>

({
    setup : function(component, event, helper) {
    var data = {
        labels: ["January", "February", "March"],
        datasets: [{
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        }]
    };
    var el = component.find("chart").getElement();
    var ctx = el.getContext("2d");
    var myNewChart = new Chart(ctx).Line(data);
}
})

When I am using this code in lightning component facing error.
Error Message. Uncaught Action failed: c:XXXXXXXX$controller$setup [(intermediate value).Line is not a function]
Please help anyone fix this bug. Simply I did copy and paste from https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.lightning.meta/lightning/js_libs_platform.htm this.Also in static resource Chart.js file uploaded.

A: Have you checked the version of chart.js? They significantly changed the API between the 1.x and 2.x release.
This is the 1.x way of creating a line chart:
var myNewChart = new Chart(ctx).Line(data);

This is the 2.x way:
var myLineChart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'line',
    data: data,
    options: options
});

So if you created your static resource by just downloading the latest release, that'll be your problem.

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Opening Statement for the Meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
Daniel J. Caron Ph. D.
Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Mr. Chairman,
Members of the Committee,
Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am here in my capacity as Librarian and Archivist of Canada, to share with you my observations and comments about your study on open government. I am accompanied this afternoon by Mr. Jean-Stéphen Piché, the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for our Acquisition Sector.
Library and Archives Canada combines the holdings, services and staff of the former National Library of Canada and the former National Archives of Canada. Our mandate, as defined in the Library and Archives of Canada Act is to preserve the documentary heritage of Canada, to be a source of enduring knowledge accessible to all, to facilitate co-operation among communities, and to serve as the continuing memory of the Government of Canada and its institutions.
The digital age instilled profound shifts in how societies access their documentary heritage, and open government is just one factor among many in this transformation. In particular, the increasing use of information technology by governments and citizens makes it possible to distribute information immediately and at a lower cost. This use of technology allows us to better understand how governments work. It increases the expectations of Canadians, both with respect to government accountability through increasing transparency, and with respect to civic participation in socio-economic debates.
I should point out that this important paradigm shift has not led to a change in the order of business for Library and Archives Canada, nor a change in our institution's reason for being. We are continuing to collect our country's documentary heritage in its varied forms and we are trying to make it as accessible as possible, within our legal, regulatory and administrative environment.
For Library and Archives Canada, as for all memory institutions, society's greater access to its documentary heritage raises multidimensional issues in view of the volume of collections, the diversity of the origin and nature of records, and the different vehicles by which we acquire them. These three different factors have ethics and legal repercussions on our ability to make documentary heritage accessible to Canadians.
The issue of the volume of collections will be resolved gradually through the digitization of holdings. The diversity of the origin and nature of records and the way in which they are acquired raise questions about the system of access governing the various components of our documentary heritage. For example, the records of the Queen's Privy Council have their own system of access. Books that are published in this country, which are kept under the legal deposit program, have another system. Records subject to solicitor-client privilege have a different system. And records from ministers' offices have yet another, and so on. Finally, when Canadians decide to entrust documents of high value to Library and Archives Canada, it is important that they feel they can do so with confidence, that is, knowing that the access given to them is in accordance with their wishes.
The few rules I have just mentioned are part of society's access management framework in which Library and Archives Canada operates. This framework is composed of several statutes, such as the Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Copyright Act, the provisions in the Quebec Civil Code that relate to property and the equivalent common law principles. In addition to these statutes, there are internal government regulations and policies, and a series of special rules that apply to Library and Archives Canada, covering specific situations or contractual agreements between the institution and its donors.
At present, one of my priorities is to clarify the rules that make up the access management framework, to resolve any inconsistencies, fill any gaps, and make this management framework as widely available as possible. This will be our contribution to the evolution of the framework.
I believe that the more clearly the framework's elements are articulated, the more effectively Library and Archives Canada will be able to play its role. In turn, this will contribute to a healthy, sustainable and trusted environment between the various creators of information—government institutions, donors, artists, and so on—and all Canadians who wish to have access to their documentary heritage.
The importance of the trusted environment that I am refereeing to must not be underestimated, because the access framework is the culmination and reflection, under the rule of law, of how citizens wish to use their documentary heritage: it is the connection between people and their collective memory.
All of these efforts will allow us to increase our effectiveness in processing access requests. These efforts are parallel to the work of this committee on open government. Your proceedings and reports will inform the different components of the access management framework that governs the activities of Library and Archives Canada.
Mr. Chairman, I would now like to underscore a number of initiatives that Library and Archives Canada is presently engaged in which increases, in my view, support the concept of government openness.
First, in partnership with the Canadian Urban Libraries Council and the War Museum, Library and Archives Canada has started to digitize military records from the past world wars to support a pan- Canadian Lest We Forget program. In addition, about 4,000 items from the old map card catalogue, now in the public domain, have been digitized and may be consulted online. Furthermore, the records of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from the First World War have been digitized and loaded into a Web portal.
Second, in collaboration with the Treasury Board Secretariat, Library and Archives Canada leads the first phase of the Digital Office Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to create an environment where borne-digital documents will remain digital from creation to access.
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Lastly, Library and Archives Canada will gradually offer its access-to-information service online by responding to requests with digitized documents. This initiative will yield two important advantages: it will accelerate our response time, and digitized documents will be infinitely reusable for repeat requests.
Mr Chairman, I would like to conclude my remarks by summarizing the presentation I made to the International Council of Archives last September. To better serve Canadian society, Library and Archives Canada must be selective in what it acquires, more robust in how it preserves the documentary heritage of Canadians to ensure the authenticity and integrity of information, and more porous to provide better access to its holdings.
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E.T.: The Green Planet is the twelth game based on the movie
E.T. and video games. We just can't help it.
E.T. and video games. It's considered one of the causes of the great video game crash of 1983. And, the alien is threatening to kill video games once again.
E.T.: The Green Planet is a new free-to-play game for iOS from Strawdog Studios, Big Play Digital, and Chillingo. The game takes E.T. to a dying planet where he must use his healing touch to breed new plants.
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is one of the greatest science-fiction films ever made and conjures up nostalgia for countless fans around the world. We are excited to commemorate this global cultural phenomenon by publishing an amazing new game," Chillingo's Chris Byatte said in the announcement.
Oddly, this is actually the twelfth game based on E.T. movie--at least according to Wikipedia. Clearly, the industry likes putting its hand to the fire.
Minecraft Earth beta sign up and download FAQ
Minecraft Earth release date and price
Tetris Royale announced for iOS and Android
Minit is now available on iOS and Android
Andrew Yoon posted a new article, E.T.: The Green Planet is the twelth game based on the movie.


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Persoverzicht Tsjetsjenië – juni 2013
US State Department report on terrorism: 659 people killed in terror attacks in Russia in 2012: According to the US State Department's annual report, called 'Country Reports on Terrorism 2012', 659 people were killed and 490 were injured in 182 terrorist attacks in Russia last year. Most of the terrorist attacks have been perpetrated in the North Caucasus. (MK)
Makhachkala mayor's arrest: (i) Commenting on the arrest of Makhachkala mayor Said Amirov on suspicion of organizing the murder of an investigator in December 2011, some experts suggest that the arrest would limit the influence of clans in Dagestan. Some observers link the Amirov arrest to the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and the Kremlin's efforts to ensure order and security in the North Caucasus. Izvestia reports that investigator Alexei Serdyukov, who has been involved in investigating terrorism related crimes, will be in charge of the Amirov case. Meanwhile, President Putin has signed a decree to dismiss Zhaudat Akhmetkhanov from the post of Interior Minister of the Republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia. (ii) Nezavisimaya Gazeta dedicates a special supplement, 'NG-Politics', to a report on ethnic and religious threats to Russia's national security prepared by experts of the Institute of National Strategy led by Mikhail Remizov. (Kommersant, MK, MT, NG, Novye Izvestia; kremlin.ru)
Dagestan: Makhachkala mayor charged: Charges have been brought against Makhachkala mayor Said Amirov and two suspected accomplices, including deputy mayor of the town of Kaspiisk Yusup Dzhaparov, over the murder of investigator Arsen Gadzhibekov. Amirov has denied his guilt. Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin said Tuesday that it took two years to prepare the operation to detain Amirov. In the view of observer Yulia Latynina, the Amirov arrest marks "a radical shift in the model of governance for Dagestan." (Gazeta.ru, Izvestia, Kommersant, MT, Novaya Gazeta, RG; Channel One)
Strasbourg Court rules Russia not responsible for Maskhadov's killing: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Russian authorities were not responsible for the death of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed in 2005 during an operation by Russian security forces in Chechnya. At the same time, the Court ruled that Russia violated the human rights of Maskhadov's family by refusing to return his body to his family. (Gazeta.ru, Kommersant, RIAN)
Terror attacks prevented in Dagestan: (i) New terror attacks were prevented in Dagestan after law enforcement officers discovered two explosive devises in Makhachkala on Friday. (ii) Izvestia reports that defense lawyers for former mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, who has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the murder of an investigator, intend to file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights over the custody conditions for Amirov. (iii) Addressing an alternative congress of the Ingush people yesterday in Moscow, Izvestia writes that participants of the forum criticized Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. Press mentions the detention on Friday in Moscow of head of the congress' organizing committee Iles Tatiyev on suspicion of involvement in an economic crime. (iv) Moskovsky Komsomolets comments on an initiative by Children's Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov to give orphans to families in the North Caucasus. (Izvestia, Kommersant, MK)
Terror attacks prevented in Dagestan: Kommersant reports on the prevention of new terror attacks in Dagestan after two potential female suicide bombers were detained by law enforcement officers in Makhachkala and in Kaspiisk. The National Antiterrorism Committee said that homemade explosive devices have been found in apartments rented by the women. (Kommersant)
Dagestan University rector appointed acting mayor of Makhachkala: Rector of the Dagestan State University Murtazali Rabadanov has been appointed the acting mayor of Makhachkala (capital of Dagestan). Rabadanov is seen as a compromise figure. Meanwhile, former mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, who has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the murder of an investigator, was reportedly hospitalized after he tried to commit suicide in custody. However, his lawyer denied allegations of Amirov's suicide attempt. (Gazeta.ru, Izvestia, Kommersant, Novye Izvestia)
Ingush leader testifies in militant leader's trial: Yesterday in the North Caucasus District Military Court, Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov testified in the trial of the case against militant leader Ali Taziyev (aka 'Magas'), who is accused of terrorism related crimes, including a 2009 assassination attempt on Yevkurov. Yevkurov called on Taziyev to repent. (Kommersant; NTV)
Serviceman sentenced to 15 years in jail over Dagestan Interior Minister's assassination: (i) The North Caucasus District Military Court has sentenced to 15 years imprisonment former army lieutenant Andrey Rezanov for murdering Dagestan Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov in 2009. (ii) Media report on an initiative in Dagestan to declare an amnesty for former militants who laid down their arms. (Kommersant, MT)
Dagestan lawmaker detained on suspicion of ties with militants: (i) Media report on the detention in Makhachkala of United Russia lawmaker of Dagestan's regional legislature Magomed Magomedov on suspicion of organizing mass disturbances so that to hamper an FSB operation against militant leader Ibragim Gadzhidadayev's gang in March 2013. Magomedov is also suspected of extortion. (ii) Two militants reportedly killed and four law enforcement officers were wounded in a clash in Dagestan late on Wednesday. (Gazeta.ru, Kommersant, RG)


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Strawberries contaminated with needles and pins leads to federal probe in Australia
Posted: 6:06 AM, Sep 17, 2018
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Strawberries are seen on June 28, 2010 in London, England.

The Australian government has ordered a federal investigation into the contamination of strawberries with needles and pins, as police reported incidents in two more Australian states.
Greg Hunt, the Australian health secretary, directed Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to investigate the incidents, as concern spread about the apparent sabotage of the retail supply chain. People in the state of Queensland reported finding sewing needles in their fruit last week.
Authorities say they don't know whether the later cases were connected, or whether they were copycats. At least six brands of strawberries have been affected.
One big retailer in New Zealand said it would halt the sale of Australian strawberries in the wake of the scare.
"It's now beginning to look as if this is much broader than had initially been presumed," Hunt told the ABC network.
Reuters reported that a man Western Australia and a girl in South Australia reported finding sewing needles in the fruit over the past two days. A man told police in York, Western Australia he had found a needle in the sink after washing a punnet of strawberries.
In a statement published on its website Sunday, South Australian police warned members of the public to check punnets of Mal's Black Label strawberries following a report of a needle found inside the fruit.
"A member of the public reported purchasing a punnet of Mal's Black Label strawberries yesterday afternoon (Saturday 15 September) from Klose's Foodland Supermarket at Littlehampton," the statement said. "When the fruit was consumed this morning, a needle was found inside one of the strawberries."
Hunt said the investigation by the food standards agency would provide reassurance. "This a vicious crime, it's designed to injure, and possibly worse, members of the population at large," he said in remarks quoted by ABC .
The government of Queensland has offered a reward of 100,000 Australian dollars (about $71,510) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the contamination.
"Whoever is behind this is not just putting families at risk across Queensland and the rest of Australia -- they are putting an entire industry at risk," Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said in a statement.
"I would urge anyone with information that may be relevant to this incident in any way to contact police as soon as possible," she said.
A spokesman for the Australian retail conglomerate Woolworths Group said its New Zealand supermaket chain Countdown would not place new orders with Australian growers. "We will transition to locally grown strawberries in a few days as the local season starts," he said.
The Queensland Health Department advised consumers to cut up strawberries before eating them. Queensland Police have also launched an investigation.
The health department said strawberries under three brands had been recalled: Berry Obsession, Berry Licious and Donnybrook Berries.
New South Wales police said the Love Berry, Delightful Strawberries and Oasis brands may also have been contaminated.


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Dr Will Bateman is a senior lecturer at the ANU College of Law.
He previously worked as associate to the hon Justice Stephen Gageler AC of the High Court of Australia, the hon Justice Steven Rares of the Federal Court of Australia and as a solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills (in litigation and banking).
Dr Bateman researches, writes and presents on legal issues relating to technology, public administration and public finance. He is currently collaborating with computer scientists developing ethical and lawful AI systems, and working with a variety of government agencies on the legal implications of automation and AI in the public sector. He also writes on constitutional and administrative law in Australia and the UK.
He holds a PhD and a LLM(hons) from the University of Cambridge, and graduated BA/LLB(hons) from the ANU. His scholarship has been published by Oxford University Press, the Sydney Law Review, the Federal Law Review, the Melbourne University Law Review and the Public Law Review.
Will is a member of the Centre of International and Public Law.
He is also a legal practitioner, admitted to practice in NSW and Federal Courts.
Significant research publications
'Comparative Constitutional Law' in Stone and Saunders (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (2018, Oxford University Press) (with S Gageler)
'The Normative Structure of Australian Administrative Law' (2017) 45 Federal Law Review 153 (with L McDonald)
'Federal Jurisdiction in State Courts: an Elaboration and Critique' (2012) 23 Public Law Review 220
'Legislating against Constitutional Invalidity: Constitutional Deeming Legislation' (2012) 34 Sydney Law Review 478
'Chapter III of the Constitution, Federal Jurisdiction and Dialogue Charters of Human Rights' (2012) 35 Melbourne University Law Review 1 (with J Stellios)
'The Constitution and the Substantive Grounds of Judicial Review: the Full Scope of the Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review' (2011) 39 Federal Law Review 432
'Procedural Due Process Under The Australian Constitution' (2009) 31 Sydney Law Review 411
ANU Law scholarship cited by highest courts in New Zealand and Victoria
Dr Will Bateman, Professor James Stellios and Associate Professor Leighton McDonald
2018 Public Law Weekend continues University's long tradition in administrative law
Honoring Emeritus Professors Robin Creyke AO and John McMillan AO
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Please note, only a small selection of recent publications and activities are listed below.
Research biography
Will researches and writes on legal dimensions of technology, public finance and public administration.
Research projects & collaborations
Will is working on a broad-range of interdisciplinary projects with international and domestic scholars.
On law and technology, he is collaborating with computer scientists developing ethical and lawful AI systems. He is also working with a variety of government agencies on the legal implications of automation and AI in the public sector.
On law and public finance, he is working with economists and political theorists on the legal regulation of central banking, sovereign borrowing and public expenditure.
'Comparative Constitutional Law' in Stone and Saunders (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (2018, Oxford University Press) (with S Gageler).
'The Normative Structure of Australian Administrative Law' (2017) 45 Federal Law Review 153 (with L McDonald).
'Federal Jurisdiction in State Courts: an Elaboration and Critique' (2012) 23 Public Law Review 220.
'Legislating against Constitutional Invalidity: Constitutional Deeming Legislation' (2012) 34 Sydney Law Review 478.
'Chapter III of the Constitution, Federal Jurisdiction and Dialogue Charters of Human Rights' (2012) 35 Melbourne University Law Review 1 (with J Stellios).
'The Constitution and the Substantive Grounds of Judicial Review: the Full Scope of the Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review' (2011) 39 Federal Law Review 432.
'Procedural Due Process Under The Australian Constitution' (2009) 31 Sydney Law Review 411.
Conference papers & presentations
'Automatic Public Law', Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University, November 2018.
'Public Sector Automation', Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University, August 2018.
'Legal Regulation of Central Banking' commenting on Lastra, 'Populism and Central Bank Independence', Centre for Arts, Social Science and the Humanities, University of Cambridge, March 2018.
'Automatic Law', Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, March 2017.
'Research Agendas in Public Law', Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, February 2017
'Grounds of Review, Statutory Interpretation and Proportionality: Diversity and Unity in the English and Australian Law of Judicial Review', Cambridge Public Law Conference, University of Cambridge, September 2016.
'Parliamentary Control of Public Expenditure', Australian Association of Constitutional Law, Australian National University, August 2016.
'Parliamentary Control of Public Money: The Curious Case of Sovereign Borrowing', Democracy and Debt Workshop, University of Cambridge, 2015.
'Australia's Constitutional and Regulatory Environment', Australian Institute of Company Directors, Sydney, 2013.
'International Arbitration and Constitutional Law', Australian Association of Constitutional Law, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, 2012.
'Constitutional Law and Government Contracting', Australian Association of Constitutional Law, Australian National University, Canberra, 2012.
PhD supervision
Will is keen to supervise in his areas of research interest.
SJD supervision
Honours thesis supervision
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Today I made migas for the first time. Yummy!
These are so amazing!!! My new go-to egg breakfast recipe, though these would be just as yummy for supper. They are so packed with delicious Tex Mex flavor that they have my taste buds doing the Mexican Hat Dance! My only question is, how much cilantro should I add to the eggs? The directions state to" add the cheese and chopped cilantro", but there is no mention of cilantro in the ingredients list. Thanks for sharing such a kickin' good recipe!!
Well, I made this for breakfast yesterday and it was easy and delicious. Next time I'll put some meat in it. Do you have any suggestions for meat? I think chorizo would be good if I can find it.
We're so glad you enjoyed them, Melanie! As for meat, we also think Chorizo would be awesome in these!
We LOVED these when we visited you guys in Spain. Can't wait to try – probably for lunch or dinner. Combined with fresh fruit, this will be a great summer meal.
I love this recipe! We usually have it for breakfast after entertaining with the mandatory chips and salsa. In my neck of the woods we call this Chilaquiles and add a red enchilada sauce and serve with a side of frijoles al caldero.
Thank you for reminding me that I should make migas for breakfast on a more regular basis. I do not keep tortilla chips in the house (they would never be around when I needed them), so I always fry my tortillas. You made me realize that migas would be a perfect way to use up the little tortillas I buy for street-style tacos. I will also always choose to use cotija or queso fresco, perhaps because I live on the border with Mexico and am strongly influenced by the culture around me.
So …I made this tonite. I saw the earlier email and I said immediately that sounds delish! I went for a run this eve my son ate pizza, I wasn't in the mood to cook but I was STARVING. I realized I had all the ingredients on hand which is what initially appealed because I always have chips, salsa, cilantro and avocado on hand which added as toppings to this dish totally make it. Additionally I added cotija cheese to the scramble. I also sautéed the jalapeño, onion and garlic per your suggestion which I can't imagine not doing each time, the flavor that it lends is a must. But the texture of the chips was most surprising in terms of what it does for this dish. Very quick and easy and YU-MMY!
Looks delicious. I want to try this recipe tonight. I was wondering if the salt needs to be reduced since corn tortilla chips have salt already on them. Or do I look for unsalted chips? I don't want the dish to be too salty.
These look great And nice And quick to make! But i think now you live un Spain you should make spanish migas too!
I LOVE Migas! Yes, they are perfect for leftover tortillas or chips. I usually wind up making them very much like this when I have leftover fried corn tortillas from chilaquiles. SO good for the next day. This is great!
I, too, had Migas in Austin and my life was forever changed. I LOVE MIGAS! I'll give this a try – I'm always wondering how to use the last crumbly bits of tortilla chips at the bottom of the bag!
I just posted this recipe on my facebook family side many family members I know will be interested. your a charm , Good job !
Love migas, my mom always made them for us as kids. Thanks for sharing.
100% excellent! Thanks for sharing this easy recipe. I used 3 egg whites, 2 whole eggs and mozzarella, as my attempt at healthier version.
I made this last night for dinner as a "let's see what we can throw together with stuff in the pantry/fridge" and holy mackerel, it was sooo good. I actually forgot to throw in the garlic and it was still amazing. Will make it again, like maybe tonight?
I have tried this recipe for the first time – Experience was great to be honest, My husband has liked it very much. It's good to try new recipes every week , what do you say (smile)?
Hey y'all, I'm from San Antonio, so I've had my share of Migas. This recipe is definitely the gourmet version of migas, but I love it! Down here, it's typically just fried corn tortillas or crumbled chips, eggs, seasoned with salt & pepper and thrown in a flour tortilla. That's what you're gonna get if you go to a taco shop. Personally, I never bought into the hype that my fiancée tried to sell me, but after trying this recipe, I am hooked! There are so many great flavors going on in this recipe already that I didn't need the extra garnish, but by all means add whatever sounds appetizing.
The salsa already has those flavors emulsified, so there isn't a need to cook it further. This saves you about 5 minutes and still taste amazing.
Oh, if you can't find tortilla chips where you are, try using Doritos Nacho Cheese chips if you have them available locally. That's basically what I did and it taste great.
Lastly, for the "Mexican Cheese" blend, you're looking to blend cheeses like cheddar, Colby jack, and/or Monterrey; any combination of these in equal parts will fulfill the cheese blend requirement!
Made this for a girls' brunch with bottom-of-the bag broken tortilla chips. So easy, so good and so customize-able. Thank you!


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Digitisation fuels increased growth in €2.4bn Nordic consulting market
Despite facing a wide range of threats, the drive towards digitisation combined with strong growth in Sweden helped the Nordic consulting market grow by 4.7 per cent to €2.4bn in 2014. Sweden, which grew by 5.5 per cent, is the Nordics biggest consulting market at €797million, according to new research from Source Information Services (Source).
The Source report also revealed above average growth in the second and third biggest Nordic markets: Denmark (5.5 per cent to €652million) and Norway (5 per cent to €579million). Meagre growth returned to the Finnish consulting market — rising just 1.4 per cent to €386million. But the Source report suggests that growth is unlikely to increase further in 2015, as political and economic uncertainty in Europe and Russia combine with the impact of low oil prices in Norway to supress demand.
Edward Haigh, Director of Source Information Services said: "As you might expect, the experience of individual consulting firms varied quite significantly from the overall market figure, even if the vast majority were positive to some degree. Where there's more consistency is in reports that a relatively weak start to the year gave way to a much better second half. And there's optimism too, that 2015 will continue in a similar vein."
Digitisation drives services
The report also explains that due to the opportunities presented by digitisation, the technology service line was the fastest growing in 2014, expanding by 6.2 per cent to €825million. Operational improvement also grew by 4.4 per cent to €653million due to clients now looking at their operations from a customer perspective, and using this as a starting point for working out where they can add value and drive efficiency.
Frank Madsen, Partner and Country Head from PA Consulting Group added: "Customer experience is becoming more important to clients in all of its aspects, and that's very much related to digitisation and optimisation. But whereas optimisation of customer experience used to be about improving call centres, it now covers so much more. It's about creating a consistent customer experience across all channels."
Public sector and retail were the fastest growing sectors — both up 5.7 per cent in 2014 to €630million and €91million respectively, with digitisation the main driver of growth. Organisations are striving to put the experience of customers and citizens respectively at the heart of everything they do and digitisation is playing a key role in that. Financial Services, the second largest consulting market sector in the Nordics also grew strongly — up 5.4 per cent to €467million.
Edward Haigh from Source said: "Overall 2014 was a good year for the Nordic region, in particular the Big Four. Despite the pressures being exerted on them in terms of new EU regulation the Big Four grew faster than any other firm type, expanding by 7.3 per cent in 2014. Inorganic growth is playing a part in this — the Big Four have been especially acquisitive recently — but the ability of these firms to cover a broad range of services is helping them to win big transformation programmes."


A startup by the name of Tipbit — backed by Ignition Partners and Andreessen Horowitz —wants to make you more productive.
We discovered Tipbit through an SEC filing, which indicated that the company just raised $1.95 million in debt financing.
Mangione is a tech industry veteran who worked as a corporate vice president at Microsoft from 1996 to 2005, leading efforts for products such as SQL Server and Exchange Server. He then moved to XenSource, an Ignition-backed company that was acquired by Citrix for $500 million in 2007.
Others on the team include chief architect Ewan Mellor, a former software engineer at XenSource who most recently served as director of open source engineering and cloud platforms at Citrix, and vice president of engineering Nat Ballou, who spent seven years at Microsoft working on products such as SQL Server, Windows, Bing, Office365 and XBox Live.
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When non-smokers share a space with someone who is smoking they are being exposed to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke affects everyone but can be increasingly harmful to pregnant women and children.
What are other names for secondhand smoke?
Secondhand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease in non-smokers. It puts people suffering from breathing disorders and heart disease at particular risk and it makes illnesses such as asthma and chronic bronchitis worse.
What if I live with a smoker?
The risk of these problems is greatly reduced as soon as the individual is no longer breathing in secondhand smoke.
Smoking in the presence of young children can cause them serious illness and may make them more likely to suffer health problems in later life.
Why are children who share a home with smokers at risk?
Children depend on adults to make sure their air is smoke-free.
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Smoking in the presence of a pregnant woman may endanger the health of the fetus (unborn baby) and mother.
Quitting smoking is the most important thing you can do for your own health. But if you are not ready to quit smoking you can still protect your family and friends from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.


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Q: First two characters of a string are being cut off when i match text with a regular expression and fetch the matched text I wrote a piece of code that simply asks for the user's name and returns it in a formatted string using a regex. I'm not too sure what i am doing wrong. I've looked at the documentation for the module i'm using, re, and i didn't find anything. I've also checked my textbook i'm learning from and failed to find anything.
import re

p = re.compile('(?P<word>[a-zA-Z]+)')

print('Hi. Whats your name?')

userin = input()

match = p.search(userin, re.IGNORECASE)
name = match.group('word')

print('Hi {} im Dad Bot!'.format(name))

For example, if i input Bobby it returns "Hi bby im Dad Bot!"
Is it possible that my problem is with the re module or is it something wrong with my regex (?P[a-zA-Z]+)


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FWS: Wolverines need ESA protection but must wait
Mitch Merry
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced today that the wolverine merits Endangered Species Act protections but will not be added to the list of endangered and threatened species any time soon.
The report, released today, states that while the impact of climate change warrants granting the mammal endangered status, consideration of listing other more threatened species prevents FWS from taking immediate action to safeguard the species.
In the report, FWS estimated that there are fewer than 300 wolverines in the United States currently.
The decision, while granting no protection to the species, reverses a Bush-era determination that said that the wolverine did not warrant ESA listing as adjacent populations not in the United States were healthy. The revised decision recognizes the threat posed to wolverines due to climate change related habitat loss.
Wolverines require deep snowpack to survive, digging up to 10 feet below the surface to build dens. The report found climate change to be the "primary threat to the wolverine population".
The decision was reached in response to litigation filed by ESC Member Organizations and other conservation groups.
Regarding the "warranted but precluded" decision for wolverines, ESC's Northern Rockies Representative, Derek Goldman said,
"As the wolverine case now illustrates, the Endangered Species Act—our nation's safety net for fish, plants and wildlife on the brink of extinction—is chronically underfunded. U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists now have more than 250 species that they admit need protection, but for which they have insufficient funding to do so. Congress owes it to future generations of Americans to make sure wildlife professionals have the resources necessary to protect the wolverine and other endangered species and the places they call home."
Moving forward, the wolverine will be added to a candidate species list and the speed with which it receives deserved resources and protections is dependent on the number of species ahead of it.
To find out more about endangered species and how you can support our work and help save endangered and threatened wildlife please visit stopextinction.org.
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The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP)
Написане: вівторок вересня 21, 2010 10:18 am Тема повідомлення: The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP)
The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP) supports students from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine (studying in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, or Zaporizhia only) in the United States for one-year of non-degree academic studies and service learning and one subsequent year in their home country leading a community service project of their own design.
The program seeks to assist educational and civic development in Southeastern and Eastern Europe by exposing participants to a liberal arts curriculum, different models of classroom instruction, community service work, and civil society related programming. UEP combines the U.S. liberal arts academic experience with exposure to American social issues and civic development through involvement in community service related work. The program aims to create lasting ties among participants and their American colleagues thereby contributing to cultural understanding and tolerance.
Fellows attend a university or college in the United States for one year. While in the U.S., grantees agree to complete 25 hours a semester (a total of 50 hours for the academic year) of community service work in an area of interest to them. At the end of the year, they are required to return home to complete their degrees. Once back in their home country, grantees are expected to carry out a community-based service project of their own design, addressing an issue of importance to them. Throughout the term of the fellowship, grantees will attend bi-annual conferences to support their professional development and share personal experiences.
Applicants must be a citizen of one of the eligible countries listed as well as be enrolled as a second-year student at a university in one of these countries to be eligible. Participant selection and university placement is determined by a panel of experts in the United States. Candidates do not apply to a specific university.
In order to qualify for the program, an applicant must:
•	Be a citizen and resident of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Serbia, or Ukraine.
•	Be a current second-year undergraduate student studying American Studies, Art History, Classical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Economic Theory*, Fine or Performing Arts, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Literature and Languages, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, or Women's or Gender Studies. *Please note that economic theory does not include business administration or management.
•	Be enrolled in an accredited university in his or her home country. Ukrainian applicants must be studying at a university in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, or Zaporizhia to be eligible.
•	Be in the second year of study when applying and return to their home country to complete their degree following the program.
•	Have an outstanding academic record.
•	Demonstrate leadership or leadership potential and have a history of community and/or extracurricular involvement.
•	Have spent previous two years in residence in home country.
•	Have not attended a university in the United States.
•	Have not attended high school in the United States for more than one academic semester.
•	Be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
•	Be able to begin studies in the summer of 2011.
Selection is based on academic merit, extracurricular and community activities, leadership potential, and knowledge of English. The number of awards varies by country, with approximately three to seven awards granted per country.
Participant selection is conducted in four stages. All applicants which meet the above criteria will have their applications reviewed and evaluated by a U.S.-based team of university representatives. Semi-finalists are invited for English language exams and an in-country interview conducted by U.S. education professionals. Applications, interview evaluations, and exam results are all considered by a final selection team, which will then recommend university placements for finalists. Final placements are determined by the U.S. universities. Students cannot determine their own university placements.
Program participants receive a full scholarship that covers tuition, room, board, living stipend, textbooks, transportation, and health insurance. No financial support or special provisions are provided for dependents or family members.
Participant Responsibility
All participants must attend the pre-departure orientation program for one week in July 2011 (transportation, room, and board are paid for by the program), as well as conferences and other program activities throughout the academic year. While in the United States, students must uphold the academic standards of the host institution and undertake full-time study for the duration of the program. Students are advised to take courses of interest to them outside of their field of study in order to diversify and broaden their perspectives. English language courses (as opposed to English literature classes) are discouraged. Students should elect classes that are at a junior or advanced level. No more than one language course or two introductory level courses of any discipline per semester will be allowed.
While in the U.S., grantees agree to complete 25 hours of community service related work per semester, a total of 50 hours of service per academic year. The type of work will be chosen by the student and opportunities can be arranged with the help of the host university.
At the end of the year, fellows are required to return home to complete their degree at their home universities.
Application forms will be available for download from the http://www.soros.org/initiatives/scholarship/focus_areas/undergraduate_exchange/guidelines Applications may also be submitted electronically through the Online Application System at http://oas.soros.org/oas/.
The application deadline for the 2011-12 academic year is December 1, 2010.


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Appeals Court Looks Askance at Obamacare
Obamacare may not be the "law of the land" for long.
by David Catron
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Tuesday afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Texas v. Azar and aggressively interrogated attorneys defending Obamacare's individual mandate. They seemed deeply skeptical that the mandate can survive constitutional muster unless the lawyers representing Democratic attorneys general in 21 states and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives can produce more convincing arguments than they have thus far put forward. This may well endanger the entire health-care law. The general atmosphere during Tuesday's hearing suggested that, if the individual mandate falls, Obamacare's entire creaking edifice must go down with it.
This was the reasoning used by U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor when he struck down the law last December. He ruled that the individual mandate had been rendered unconstitutional when its "tax-penalty" was eliminated by Congress and that the mandate was inseverable from the rest of the statute. O'Connor further held that this combination of factors required him to invalidate Obamacare in its entirety. This decision was greeted with indignation by the law's apologists in the Democratic Party, the "news" media, and academia. And this reaction was as nothing compared to the outrage that greeted the Trump administration's decision not to appeal O'Connor's ruling.
Nancy Pelosi called the ruling "monstrous," accusing President Trump and the GOP in general of perpetrating an "all-out assault on people with pre-existing conditions and Americans' access to affordable health care." The editors of The New York Times were beside themselves with rage: "This partisan, activist ruling cannot stand … Obamacare is the law of the land. It will remain that way." Predictably, more than one legal scholar denounced President Trump for failing to fulfill his constitutional duties. University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley, a longtime Obamacare apologist, denounced Trump's DOJ: "It's a shocking dereliction of the Justice Department's duty."
You will note that none of this bluster contains the slightest hint of a constitutional argument. The claim by the Times that Obamacare is the "law of the land," for example, could have also been said of Plessy v. Ferguson. That was considered the law of the land for more than half a century. And, oddly enough, the Democrats were also highly displeased when that odious ruling was finally put to rest by Brown v. Board of Education. For well over a decade after Brown was handed down, "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards sprouted up like weeds along America's highways — in the North and the South. Oh, by the way, did Nicholas Bagley denounce Obama's DOJ for failing to defend DOMA?
The problem isn't the Trump administration or his Department of Justice. It's Obamacare, the outrageous individual mandate, and the bizarre "saving construction" concocted by Chief Justice John Roberts in NFIB v. Sebelius. It is frequently claimed in the media that SCOTUS upheld the individual mandate — and thus Obamacare — as a natural exercise of Congress's taxing power. Nope. In fact, the law's text and Obama's lawyers argued that the mandate was constitutional pursuant to the Commerce Clause as well as the Necessary and Proper Clause. But a majority of the justices rejected that argument. Constitutional scholars Randy Barnett and Josh Blackman explain it thus:
Chief Justice Roberts and the four other conservatives [found that] the mandate in § 5000A(a) was, and still is, unconstitutional. The mandate was declared constitutionally dead in 2012 and, like the parrot in Monty Python, the mandate remains dead to this day … Roberts tried to avoid a finding that the core of the ACA was unconstitutional by adopting a "saving construction" of the "penalty" as a tax, Chief Justice Roberts upheld the "penalty" in § 5000A(b) — now zeroed out by the TCJA.
In other words, the Supreme Court confirmed in NFIB v. Sebelius that Congress can't impose the mandate pursuant to the Commerce or the Necessary and Proper Clause. Moreover, the "saving construction" concocted by Chief Justice Roberts — that the mandate is essentially a revenue-raising device that resembles a tax — collapsed when the tax-penalty was eliminated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Therefore, Judge O'Connor concluded that the mandate had to be struck down. And, because Obamacare contains no severability clause, and its advocates have always insisted that the individual mandate was the "linchpin" of the law, the whole statute had to go down:
First, the Court finds the Parties satisfy the applicable standing requirements. Second, the Court finds the Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of Congress's Tax Power and is still impermissible under the Interstate Commerce Clause — meaning the Individual Mandate is unconstitutional. Third, the Court finds the Individual Mandate is essential to and inseverable from the remainder of the ACA.
The Fifth Circuit judges peppered the attorneys representing the Democrats in an effort to get some answer that would show Judge O'Connor's ruling to be wrong on the law and seemed profoundly underwhelmed with the responses they received. If you want to hear why, an audio of the 90-minute hearing can be found here. In the end there really isn't any defense of the individual mandate or the hilariously named "Affordable Care Act." The Fifth Circuit will probably uphold Judge O'Connor's ruling, and then the next stop will be SCOTUS. Unless, the justices of that august body decide to let this monstrosity die by refusing to hear an appeal. Hope springs eternal.
David Catron
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Michel Reuter has been appointed German Marketing Manager for Vero Software, further strengthening the company's expansion and consolidation in the DACH region.
Michel joins Vero after four years as European Marketing Communications Coordinator for Branson Ultrasonics GmbH & Co. OHG, a company involved in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for using ultrasonic welding, laser, infrared and vibration applications.
He has also worked as an intern, project and process managing plastic engineering; and as a tool maker with CAD/CAM experience, majoring on mold making using CNC turning and milling.
His appointment is a significant aspect of Vero's development in Germany. Earlier this year, Vero acquired CAMTECH GmbH & Co KG, master distributor of EDGECAM in the country since 2003.
All Vero's assets in Germany, including the WORKNC stable of products, are now part of the newly-formed Vero Software GmbH. Vero President Steve Sivitter says: "The acquisition of CAMTECH, rebranding our German operations, and appointing Michel Reuter as Marketing Manager will enable us to better capitalize on the growing opportunities in the region. Being close to our customers is a key driver to our growth strategy."
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Carnival UK joins forces with Evenbreak to increase inclusion
by DiversityQ December 2, 2019
Carnival UK makes strives to become an inclusive employer of choice by teaming up with the UK's most accessible job board.
As part of its commitment to becoming an inclusive employer of choice, Carnival UK has partnered with Evenbreak, the UK's most accessible job board, run by and for disabled people – helping talented disabled candidates and inclusive employers to find each other.
Carnival UK is the first cruise company to partner with Evenbreak. As one of Southampton's largest employers, the partnership is launching with roles advertised for their shoreside head office while they consult with Evenbreak on fleet recruitment opportunities.
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As part of Evenbreak's support service, all Carnival UK colleagues have access to a best practice portal with practical guidance to increase their confidence and skills around inclusion and accessibility conversations.
Having seen Jane Hatton, Evenbreak's founder, present at Diversity and Inclusion conference, Cunard President, Simon Palethorpe, was inspired to invite her to talk to colleagues during Carnival UK's National Inclusion Week. The partnership developed from there.
Commenting on the partnership, Cunard President Simon Palethorpe said: "I'm delighted that Carnival UK has partnered with Evenbreak.
"As Chair of our Belonging & Inclusion steering group, I am privileged to work with some very committed individuals from across the business to create a fabulous working environment where everyone feels they belong. Our ambition is for people to choose to work for Carnival UK for precisely this reason.
"Our business is dynamic and complex and we need a broad range of skills and experience to deliver terrific holidays for our Guests. We want to make sure the opportunities to work at Carnival UK are visible to everyone, so we find the very best people for the job."
Evenbreak's founder and director Jane Hatton said: "We are delighted to be working with Carnival UK, and know that our talented disabled candidates will be of great benefit to the organisation. It's refreshing to find a travel company which values diversity and is open to accessing talent from a range of backgrounds."
Guest Relations Representative Kelly Lawton, has worked at Carnival UK for nearly five years.
Like 83% of disabled people, Kelly became disabled during her working life when she was diagnosed with the neurological condition multiple sclerosis in 2017.
Reflecting on the partnership, Kelly said: "I think it's great that we're partnering with Evenbreak because everyone deserves the opportunity of employment. I'm living proof that you can have a disability and a career. Carnival UK has supported me with equipment and an individual working pattern tailored to my needs. Being able to work encourages me to keep going. To know that I'm valued for my skills, have a role, a purpose and something to look forward to each day means I'm not defined by my disability."
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