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Title: Man United complete Sancho signing from Dortmund
Date: 23rd July 2021
Summary: MILAN, ITALY (FILE - OCTOBER 22, 2019) (REUTERS) SANCHO DOING A 'KEEPIE UPPIE' THEN PASSING THE BALL BARCELONA, SPAIN (FILE - NOVEMBER 26, 2019) (REUTERS) SANCHO DOING PASSING DRILL LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (FILE - FEBRUARY 12, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SANCHO WARMING UP WITH BORUSSIA DORTMUND TEAM MATES AT WEMBLEY
Embargoed: 6th August 2021 14:09
Keywords: Borussia Dortmund Jadon Sancho Manchester United transfer sale
Location: DORTMUND, GERMANY / MILAN, ITALY / BARCELONA, SPAIN / LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
City: DORTMUND, GERMANY / MILAN, ITALY / BARCELONA, SPAIN / LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
Topics: Europe,Soccer,Sport
Reuters ID: LVA003EN2B873
Story Text:Manchester United have completed the transfer of England winger Jadon Sancho from Bundesliga team Borussia Dortmund, the Premier League club announced on Friday (July 23).
The two clubs had reached an agreement for the transfer earlier this month, with Dortmund saying United would pay 85 million euros ($100 million) for the 21-year-old.
"I'll always be grateful to Dortmund for giving me the opportunity to play first team football, although I always knew that I would return to England one day," Sancho, a former youth player at United's rivals Manchester City, told the club's website https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/statement-man-utd-complete-transfer-of-jadon-sancho-from-borussia-dortmund.
"The chance to join Manchester United is a dream come true and I just cannot wait to perform in the Premier League."
Sancho emerged as United's No. 1 transfer target last year but the clubs could not agree on a fee.
He scored 16 goals and made 20 assists in 38 games for Dortmund in all competitions in the 2020-21 season, forming a lethal partnership with Norway striker Erling Haaland.
The duo helped Dortmund qualify for the Champions League with a third-placed finish in the Bundesliga and also won the German Cup.
Sancho has 22 caps for England since making his debut in 2018, but played only three matches for Gareth Southgate's team at Euro 2020, where they lost in a penalty shootout to Italy in the final.
He was one of three England players, all Black, who missed their spot kicks in the final and were subsequently subjected to racist abuse online. The comments prompted a police investigation and brought widespread condemnation.
Sancho's addition will strengthen United's right wing as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team look to challenge for the Premier League title after finishing second last season, 12 points behind champions Manchester City.
They start their new league campaign with a home game against Leeds United on Aug. 14.
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Q: Use variables in build step configuration I am using the new agent build system with TFS 2015 and TFS "15" and have SonarQube tasks in my build to do source code analysis.
Now I would like to increase the version sent to SonarQube on every build. I tried the following to achive that:

But that does not work - the version is sent to SonarQube as it is there and not with the inserted build id.
How can I pass an increasing version number to SonarQube?

A: Did you try $(Build.BuildNumber)?
Any way, all the available build variables can be found here

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BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair Contract Details
Defense contract under the Navy awarded to BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair on 2/16/2016.
Contractor: BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair
BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Virginia (N00024-16-D-4406 and N00024-16-D-4411); Marine Hydraulics International, Norfolk, Virginia (N00024-16-D-4407 and N00024-16-D-4412); and General Dynamics, NASSCO – Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia (N00024-16-D-4408 and N00024-16-D-4413), are being awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contracts to provide complex emergent and continuous maintenance and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) availabilities on surface ships; Norfolk, Virginia, homeport, including surface combatants (DDG and CG) class ships and amphibious (LSD, LPD, LHA, and LHD) class ships. These contracts contain options which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $2,552,049,258. Each contractor shall furnish the facilities and human resources capable of completing complex emergent and continuous maintenance, repair, modernization, and CNO availabilities on surface ships assigned to or visiting the port of Norfolk, Virginia. Each contractor will be awarded one contract for DDG and CG class ships and one contract for LSD, LPD, LHA, and LHD class ships. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Virginia, and is expected to be complete by February 2021. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $60,000 ($10,000 minimum guarantee per contract) was obligated under each contract's initial delivery order and expires at the end of this fiscal year. These contracts were competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website with three offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, District of Columbia, is the contracting activity.
Total Contract Value: $2,552,049,258
View all contracts that include "BAE Systems, Norfolk Ship Repair" in the MiC database.


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"Collapse" explores the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert. Ruppert is a former member of the LAPD and describes himself as an investigative reporter and radical thinker, believing that unsustainable energy and financial policies have led to an ongoing collapse of modern industrial civilization.
Click on the movie poster to watch full documentary on YouTube.
"Four Horsemen" criticizes the system of fractional reserve banking, debt based economy, and political lobbying by banks, regarding them as serious threats to Western civilization.
It furthermore criticizes the war on terror, maintaining it's not being fought to eliminate al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other militant organizations, but to create larger debts owed to banks. And it provides as an alternative, a return to classical economics and the gold standard.
"Why We Fight" describes the rise and maintenance of the US military-industrial complex and its 50 year involvement with the wars led by the US to date (up to 2005). This documentary asserts that in every decade since WWII, the American public has been misled so that the government could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy, maintaining American political dominance in the world.
Interviews with John McCain, CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, commentator Bill Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione are included.
Click on the movie poster to watch trailer on YouTube.
"Knock Down the House" revolves around the primary campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin, four progressive Democrats running for office in 2018.
"Dark Money" describes the effects of corporate money and influence in the American Political System. It tracks the influence of corporate money, using the state of Montana as the primary case study, and engages with the complex history that Montana state politics has with corporate influence. One example reviewed spotlights the influence of mining corporations that ultimately cause state legislators to relax mining regulations in the state, resulting in an environmental catastrophe in Butte, causing problems that still persist today.
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Senior Sara Sale presents at ACS meeting
Author: Stephanie Healey
Senior chemical engineering major Sara Dale presented two poster sessions during the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in September about her work on the PAD Project. One session focused on general analytical chemistry and the other was called Sci-mix, a large session that highlighted a few posters from each division of the meeting.
"It was very fun and rewarding to talk with people interested in my work, and many of them had great questions and ideas about this project," Dale explained. "I also enjoyed seeing the other posters and getting a larger perspective on the work that is being done now in analytics."
Dale's involvement with the PAD project began in the summer of 2012, when she was awarded a NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF). "I wanted to learn how to do research and see whether I would like it," she said. "The NURF project on using surface acoustic wave nebulization (SAWN) as a method of detecting counterfeit pharmaceuticals caught my eye because of the practical nature of its goal and its use of analytical technology."
With the guidance of faculty mentor David Go, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, Dale uses SAWN as an alternate ionization source for mass spectrometry (MS). They have shown that SAWN can be coupled with the PAD-based analysis and that it can successfully ionize and extract a variety of antibiotics and anti-malarial drugs from paper. The hope is that paper-SAWN MS could be used to analyze many samples from the field rapidly, with little to no sample pre-treatment.
Dale's specific role in the project has been to test pharmaceuticals of interest with SAWN MS with samples in solution and those dried on paper. She is working to optimize conditions for different drugs and testing factors, such as different solvents, paper, and drying times.
Working on the PAD project has been beneficial for Dale because she realized that she really enjoys research and has had the opportunity to learn about her field in more detail. "One of the best parts of this has been getting to work with various mass spectrometers and getting to know more members of the research community at Notre Dame," Dale said.


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Semisulcospira is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soorten
 Semisulcospira coreana (Martens, 1886)
 Semisulcospira crassicosta Liu, Wang & Duan, 1994
 Semisulcospira decipiens (Westerlund, 1883)
 Semisulcospira dilatata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira fluvialis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira forticosta (Martens, 1886)
 Semisulcospira fuscata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira gottschei (Martens, 1886)
 Semisulcospira habei Davis, 1969
  Semisulcospira kokubuensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira kurodai Kajiyama & Habe, 1961
 Semisulcospira libertina (Gould, 1859)
 Semisulcospira marica Liu, Wang & Zhang, 1994
 Semisulcospira morii Watanabe, 1984
 Semisulcospira multigranosa (Boettger, 1886)
  Semisulcospira nagiensis (Matsuoka & Taguchi, 2013)
  Semisulcospira nakamurai Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira nakasekoae Kuroda, 1929
 Semisulcospira niponica (E. A. Smith, 1876)
  Semisulcospira pseudomultigranosa Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
  Semisulcospira pusilla Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira reiniana (Brot, 1876)
 Semisulcospira reticulata Kajiyama & Habe, 1961
 Semisulcospira rugosa Watanabe and Nishino, 1995
  Semisulcospira spinulifera Matsuoka & Miura, 2018

Taxon inquirendum
 Semisulcospira multicincta (Martens, 1894)
 Semisulcospira paucicincta (Martens, 1894)

Synoniemen
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) Matsuoka, 1985 => Semisulcospira O. Böttger, 1886
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) rugosa Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) decipiens (Westerlund, 1883) => Semisulcospira decipiens (Westerlund, 1883)
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) dilatata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995 => Semisulcospira dilatata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) fluvialis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995 => Semisulcospira fluvialis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) fuscata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995 => Semisulcospira fuscata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) habei Davis, 1969 => Semisulcospira habei Davis, 1969
  Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) kokubuensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2018 =>  Semisulcospira kokubuensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) morii Watanabe, 1984 => Semisulcospira morii Watanabe, 1984
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) multigranosa (Boettger, 1886) => Semisulcospira multigranosa (Boettger, 1886)
  Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) nakamurai Matsuoka & Miura, 2018 =>  Semisulcospira nakamurai Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) nakasekoae Kuroda, 1929 => Semisulcospira nakasekoae Kuroda, 1929
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) niponica (E.A. Smith, 1876) => Semisulcospira niponica (E. A. Smith, 1876)
  Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) pseudomultigranosa Matsuoka & Miura, 2018 =>  Semisulcospira pseudomultigranosa Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
  Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) pusilla Matsuoka & Miura, 2018 =>  Semisulcospira pusilla Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) reticulata Kajiyama and Habe, 1961 => Semisulcospira reticulata Kajiyama & Habe, 1961
  Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) spinulifera Matsuoka & Miura, 2018 =>  Semisulcospira spinulifera Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
 Semisulcospira paludiformis Yen, 1939 => Sulcospira paludiformis (Yen, 1939)
 Semisulcospira trivolvis Yen, 1939 => Sulcospira paludiformis (Yen, 1939)

Semisulcospiridae

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The 2001 Mountain Dew Southern 500, the 52nd running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on September 2, 2001 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Contested at 367 laps on the 1.366 mile (2.198 km) speedway, it was the 25th race of the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Ward Burton of Bill Davis Racing won the race.

Background
Darlington Raceway, nicknamed by many NASCAR fans and drivers as "The Lady in Black" or "The Track Too Tough to Tame" and advertised as a "NASCAR Tradition", is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.

The track, Darlington Raceway,  is a four-turn  oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees.

Entry list

Qualifying

Results

NOTES:
  Steve Park was injured during the support race Saturday.  Kenny Wallace started the car.
 (o):  Teams that did not qualify were awarded owner points based on speed.  (The procedure ended in 2011.)

Race statistics
 Time of race: 4:05:00
 Average Speed:
 Pole Speed: 168.048
 Cautions: 11 for 51 laps
 Margin of Victory: under caution
 Lead changes: 19
 Percent of race run under caution: 14.2%
 Average green flag run: 28.6 laps

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G. Bond is a small lunar impact crater to the south of the Lacus Somniorum, a small lunar mare in the northeast part of the Moon's near side. It was named after the American astronomer George Phillips Bond. It lies to the east of the larger crater Posidonius, and to the south of the flooded crater remnant Hall. The crater is situated in a rugged section of terrain to the northwest of the Montes Taurus mountain region.
This is a roughly circular crater that has not suffered significant impact. It is a bowl-shaped formation with an interior floor that is about half the diameter of the crater. The inner walls just slope down from the rim, and lack any notable structure.
To the west of G. Bond is a prominent rille in the lava-flooded surface, designated the Rima G. Bond. This cleft follows a course roughly along a north-south orientation, and continues for a length of about 150 kilometers. The center of this feature is at 33.3° N, 35.5° E.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to G. Bond.
^ "G. Bond (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.


The Jimmy Fund solely supports the fight against cancer at Dana-Farber. Since its founding in 1948, the Jimmy Fund has raised millions of dollars through thousands of community efforts to help save lives and give hope to cancer patients around the world. An official charity of the Boston Red Sox, Pan-Mass Challenge, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, and Variety Children's Charity of New England, the Jimmy Fund is an American favorite.
"Dedicated to discovery…Committed to care" is the mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A world leader in cancer research and treatment, the Institute was founded in 1947 by Dr. Sidney Farber and fortified by our historic partner, the Dana Foundation. Dana-Farber is renowned for using its discoveries to improve the treatment of adults and children with cancer. It is the founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is also a federally designated Center for AIDS Research and a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Dana-Farber is consistently ranked as the number one cancer hospital in New England by U.S.News & World Report.


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Die 74. French Open 1975 waren ein Tennis-Sandplatzturnier der Klasse Grand Slam, das von der ILTF veranstaltet wurde. Es fand vom 2. bis 15. Juni 1975 in Roland Garros, Paris, Frankreich statt.

Titelverteidiger im Einzel waren Björn Borg bei den Herren sowie Chris Evert bei den Damen. Im Herrendoppel waren Dick Crealy und Onny Parun, im Damendoppel Chris Evert und Olga Morosowa und im Mixed Martina Navrátilová und Iván Molina die Titelverteidiger.

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People avoid sunburn by applying sunscreen. But how do plants avoid getting burnt?
Rob Last , Michigan State University Barnett Rosenberg Professor, and postdoctoral researcher Jun Liu , are working to better understand these mechanisms. The results of their research were published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The MSU researchers have discovered the critical role played by MPH2, a protein in the lumen of the chloroplast thylakoid membrane required for the repair of photosystem II, or PSII, when damaged by excess light energy. They found that the loss of MPH2 in the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana causes PSII repair deficiency under changing light.
"Photosynthesis has a balancing act. Energy from sunlight is essential for conversion of carbon dioxide and water into biomass and chemical energy. Too much energy from the sun destroys the ability of PSII to function, and these damaged reaction centers must be repaired to allow them to get back to the business of photosynthesis," said Last, who's part of the plant biology and biochemistry and molecular biology departments in the College of Natural Science .
They have also discovered that mutants in this protein – and many other previously described PSII repair mutants – suffer when grown under dynamically changing light conditions.
The amount of sun shining on plants fluctuates enormously on timescales from seconds to seasons, Liu said.
"I find it fascinating that this molecular mechanism allows photosynthetic organisms to thrive despite these huge changes," he said.
These findings may offer insight into the evolution of photosynthesis, Liu added.
"Understanding the role of MPH2 and other PSII repair proteins could lead to breeding and genetic engineering of crops that can endure harsh climates and dynamic environments to sustainably meet the increasing demands for food, fuel and fiber in this time of changing climate and rapid population growth," he said.


Donald Snow is former executive director of the Northern Lights Research & Education Institute and founder and editor of Northern Lights Magazine in Missoula, Montana. Since 1976 he has worked as a volunteer and staff member of several environmental organizations in the American West. He completed the Conservation Leadership Project as a staff associate to The Conservation Fund, based in Arlington, Virginia.
In The Next West, nearly a dozen leading thinkers and writers including Karl Hess Jr., Mark Sagoff, Ed Marston, Thomas Michael Power, and Stephen Bodio, offer an insightful vision of the future of the American West.


NAIS Mo bros raise over HK$17,000!
There have been some pretty scary moustaches around the school among our male teachers. Thankfully it was for a good cause – the MOVEMBER FOUNDATION – promoting awareness and raising funds for men's health issues, such as prostate and testicular cancer. Our NAIS team included Mr. Deri Reid, Mr. James Malone, Mr. Martin Pate, Mr. Simon Calderwood, Mr. David Atkinson, Mr. Jaffna Hobbs, Mr. Scott MacKinnon and Miss Lauren Kenny. They raised a staggering HK$17,758! Well done team Mo Bro and Sista! Thank you for everyone's kind and generous donations.
We have to add that today, there are no more trucker-style moustaches but just a few memorable photos of their commitment and teamwork!


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Jul 27, 2015 More on Workforce
Hospital finance teams grow amid reimbursement challenges
For many hospitals and healthcare centers, the CFO, the controller, and the reimbursement manager – form the new 'trinity' of finance leadership.
David Weldon, Contributor
For many hospitals and healthcare centers, the CFO, the controller, and the reimbursement manager - form the new 'trinity' of finance leadership.
Ask the typical hospital CFO who their most important number two is, and odds are they will say the controller. But with all the changes around healthcare reimbursement models, some managers say the role of reimbursement manager is rapidly catching up.
For many hospitals and healthcare centers, that means these three roles – the CFO, the controller, and the reimbursement manager – form the new 'trinity' of finance leadership.
At Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut, Vice President of Finance Mark O'Neill said
reimbursements will demand the most of his attention over the next two or three years.
[Also: ACOs, partnerships make VP of network development jobs even more important]
"Today it is sort of on an after-care basis, but I think that we're quickly moving to reimbursement up-front. That participation will be at the forefront for us," said O'Neill.
O'Neill said he spends a lot of time reimbursement managers and controllers on a daily basis, and they share a lot of the same skills and qualities.
"They have a lot of experience in healthcare finance. They are very detailed-oriented. They're tremendous at follow-up," O'Neill said. Both also share an appreciation for the top issues that the medical and administrative staffs are facing.
This last point is critical, since O'Neill and company are spending more time with their peers in other areas of the hospital. The new reimbursement models are "something that we're all learning together," O'Neill said.
While O'Neill currently has several members on staff that each handle a variety of specific functions, or defined areas of the hospital and its ancillary organizations, the focus on new reimbursement models will probably mean new hiring in the next year or two.
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For O'Neill, new hires would need a good solid background in accounting and also some exposure to healthcare reimbursement. And though there are plenty of applicants, O'Neill expects to have a challenging time finding candidates with both strong traditional finance skills and experience in the new areas he requires.
Connecticut Children's Hospital in Hartford, a 187-bed medical center integrated with a specialty physician practice, is seeing the same trend.
According to Chief Financial Officer Patrick Garvey, the hospital has 26 areas of specialty, and treats over 300,000 patients annually.
"If you think about a true finance department like an accounting operation we're probably on the smaller size," Garvey said. "When you start to encompass the revenue cycle and some of the other aspects of finance we get a bit bigger, clearly. My accounting operation is about 10-12 people, with the budgeting side and accounts payable, payroll, as well as general accountants and management staff."
Garvey counts three of his reports as the most critical to his department's success.
"My corporate controller is my right hand person who is really keeping an eye on the cash," Garvey said. "Obviously cash is king, and we're not the type of institution that has a massive war chest. We are constantly looking at cash management and vendor relations as well."
"The other key two for me are my contracting director -- who is responsible for negotiating all the key points to all of our contracts and help our institution evolve into a more modern type of institution. The last person is my budget director, who is huge at keeping us on task."
Garvey said his department has remained fairly flat in the past two years, though skill demands have changed a bit. As to recent hires, "We had to go out and do some work around clinical documentation improvement, so we definitely expanded that aspect of our operation," Garvey said.
"Also, in general we've looked at more of a revenue integrity type of role so now have a manager of revenue integrity who helps us to ensure that our charges are appropriate; that we are capturing everything correctly; and that we are maintaining the integrity of our revenue and maximizing it to the best of our ability."
As with Griffin Hospital, reimbursement models are changing for Connecticut Children's Hospital.
Right now between 52 to 57 percent of the hospital's billings are through Medicaid, due to the nature of its patient population. But come January 1, 2016, the state will be making changes to reimbursements based heavily on Medicare.
"Medicaid is generally available to children, so even if the parents don't meet the criteria the kids probably do," Garvey explained. "That is where as a niche hospital we have the most impact, as do most children's hospitals that are standalone.
"But we don't have a big Medicare business, so we don't necessarily have the Medicare billing skills that we're going to need," Garvey explained. "Changes at the state level do require that we keep a constant eye on, 'Do we have the right mix of people?' 'Do we have enough people?' I don't expect headcount to go up much but I do expect news skillsets to be developed."
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As of now, 1 trains run between from BORIVALI (KYN) to WARANGAL (WL).
The fastest train from BORIVALI (KYN) to WARANGAL (WL) is KONARK EXPRESS (11019) that departs at 16:08 and arrives to at 10:31. It takes approximately 18:23 hours.


Kork Ballington winner of the 1979 French Grand Prix 250cc at Le Mans with Gregg Hansfor 2nd and Patrick Fernandez in 3rd.
That was Korks best year with Kawasaki as he won 7 races on the 250cc and 5 on the 350cc capturing consecutive double world championships in 1978 and 1979.
A super quality picture of the David Piper Team Gunston Porsche 917 driven by Richard Attwood and John Love at Kylami in 1970.
This picture by Ferret Fotographics measures 10'x8' and was personally signed by Richard Atwood in 2010 at the Silverstone Classic.
Photograph of Mike Hailwood & Geoff Duke after receiving the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy in 1967.
Doug Serrurier escapes his flaming Lola T70 Ford at the South Africa 9hr race at Kyalami 8th November 1969, comes with newspaper clipping.


Posted by Judy Orr on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 at 12:32pm.
Some of my fellow agents, friends and clients have seen my recent press. It started a few weeks ago with a WallStreet Journal article about how I lost the domain name for my Oak Lawn real estate website. Many other news sources across the nation picked the WSJ article.
Please be assured that I did not forget to pay my $9.00 fee. I relied on my web host to let me know what the problem was when my site first went off-line since I purchased the domain name through them. They finally figured it out the 2nd time the site went down but by that time it was too late.
The story was captured by two local papers, The Southtown Star and The Chicago Sun Times. The Southtown Star article wasn't as bad as the Sun Times article which made it sound like I simply forgot to renew my domain name. I wrote back to both papers asking for a rebuttal and the Daily Southtown gave me a second, longer article with my photo!
As soon as the original articles came out locally I was also contacted by WGN radio that did an afternoon show on it featuring the person who purchased my domain name. I was able to ask him a couple of questions.
And it all has a happy ending. The owner of the company that was the first webmaster for this site (since changed), Real Estate Webmasters, is Morgan Carey. The evening that all of the press came out I received an e-mail from Morgan with a subject line: "A gift from a friend." He had purchased my domain name back for me (which cost $1,288) and gave me a brand new site and free hosting. I couldn't believe it!
So my site is back up and running and I'm adding content to it every day I can. Morgan Carey also runs a great real estate forum that is for agents and real estate buyers and sellers.
Although I have a separate site for Oak Lawn real estate, click the link to see quick links to properties by price.


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What would you do for love...well...the love of money?
Envy was more than familiar with hard times and it seemed as though she couldn't catch a break. Out of options, and out of time, she accepts an indecent proposal in hopes of a little financial stability. Her money-making body and mesmerizing curves, takes her to the top of the game in no time and Envy starts to make more money than she could count or that she knew what to do with. But everybody knows that more money, equals more problems and soon Envy realizes that she'd bitten off more than she could chew. She finds herself caught up in a world full of money, sex, lies and deceit. Even murder seems to be on the menu. Envy learns the hard way that all attention ain't good attention; especially when it's unwanted... or when it's married.
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Was it something I said, or was it the overwhelming aroma of neat V-power whenever I was around?
I have 25 bags ready and waiting in CASH.
Has anyone else put their posters up? Thanks for the tip, whoever it was told me about these!
On a more serious and sadder note ....... has there been any news of Stimpy (Seb) and his car? ........ hopefully they both got safely back to the UK. Check in if you can with an update ....... that's if you feel like giving us an update.
I didn't see the car after the crash but I wonder if it is repairable? ..... I hope it is.
Seb it was good to meet you and sad to see you have to leave before we got to Stuttgart let alone Dinslaken.
Take care mate and I am glad you were not injured in the crash.
I've just got back from the Spa Classic and Nigel (tdiquattro who suggested the trip to Seb) joined us in his lovely 964 Targa. The latest news is that Seb's car is back in the UK and he is negotiating a mutually acceptable settlement with his insurers.
That's fantastic news about Seb - from the description of his "off" the same evening that it happened, I was really surprised to see him in one piece that night at dinner.
I really hope he manages to get the outcome that he wants with the insurers.
LOVE the posters BTW they look awesome!
Was it me I thought it was a beer tent and came out with a handful.
Yes, it may well have been you, thanks! (Think a couple of people told me before I actually went and got them).
The frames are from Amazon... Rotterdam Plastic Photo Frame 40,2 x 29,9 Inch ( 76 x 102 cm ). Not exactly cheap, due to the size.
Many thanks to everyone for their support and kind words at the time. I'll ask for this not to turn into a discussion thread but shall update you all when i have finalised with the insurer.
If anyone has any pearls of wisdom re insurers then please feel free to pm me.


Smokers in the UK can no longer buy smaller packs of cigarettes and rolling tobacco. This ban on small packs is a part of a longer plan to phase out menthol cigarettes entirely by 2020.
Under new tobacco laws, which took effect May 21, smaller bags (under 30g) of roll-your-own tobacco and ten-packs of cigarettes are banned. The phasing out of small packs by the government began last May when packaging was standardized, but shops had a year to get rid of old stock.
The ban is also extended to some flavored cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco, including fruit, spice, herbs, alcohol, candy, or vanilla.A complete ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes is set for May 20, 2020.


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Еспарцет закавказький (Onobrychis transcaucasica Grossh) — багаторічна рослина родини бобових, рослина ярого типу, двоукісна.

Характеристики
Коренева система: добре розвинена, корені проникають у ґрунт на 3-4 м.

Висота стебла 60 — 70 см іноді до 150 см, добре облиствена. Листя: складні, непарнопересті, листкові пластинки довгасті, загострені.

Квітки яскраво- і блідо-рожеві, зібрані в щільні китиці.

Плід: боби напівкруглі.

Насіння: ниркоподібне, блискуче, жовто-зелене.

Вологолюбний, посухостійкий, зимостійкий.

Опис
Багаторічна рослина родини бобових. (на одному місці росте 3-7 років)

Добре відпростає весною після укосів. Придатний для вирощування у районах із достатньою вологістю ґрунту. Рослина ярого типу.

Може рости на вапняних, кам'янистих ґрунтах і крутих схилах, але віддає перевагу сухим карбонатним чорноземам і темно-каштановим ґрунтам.

Для проростання насіння потребує вологи в 1,5 раза більше за свою масу. Насіння починає проростати при температурі ґрунту 3 — 5 °С. Оптимальною є температура 10 — 12 °С на глибині ґрунту 3 — 4 см. За таких умов сходи з'являються на 7 — 10-й день.

З еспарцету готують сіно, сінаж, зелений корм, використовують його і як пасовищне.

Зелена маса і сіно еспарцету розцінюються як відмінні, багаті поживними речовинами корми для всіх видів тварин. Випасання худоби на еспарцетовуму пасовищі або підгодовування тварин свіжою травою цієї культури сприятливо впливає на їх ріст і продуктивність.

Еспарцет — цінна медоносна культура. З 1 га його посіву одержують 200 кг високоякісного меду.

Вирощування еспарцету є дуже важливим напрямом екологізації і біологізації рослинництва, резервом успішного вирішення проблем як виробництва високоякісних кормів, так і покращення родючості ґрунту.

Примітки

закавказький


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Q: How to emulate clicking with help of JS? Is it possible to emulate clicking on a button on a page in mobile Chrome with help of JavaScript? Is there any way to do this?  It would be great if you could point me to an example. Thank you in advance.

A: Please be more detailed in your post, include some code so we know what you are actually doing, try reading the guidelines for a post before asking a question.
Now depending on what you are trying to do there is other ways to accomplish certain key presses, but we do not know or have any clue currently what your code looks like.
So here is an example:

function myFunction() {
  document.getElementById("myCheck").click();
}

Hover over the checkbox to simulate a mouse-click.

<form>
  <input type="checkbox" id="myCheck" onmouseover="myFunction()" onclick="alert('click invocation occurred')">
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Cinekid, ECFA, Eye and FLICK invite you to the Film Literacy Seminar: Exploring Visual Cultureat Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam on Tuesday 23 October.
The aim of the seminar is to exchange and broaden perspectives both on visual culture and the positioning of film in the cultural and educational debate. Best practices are discussed and during hands-on sessions we will zoom in on a variety of topics, such as lobbying and collaboration, to increase awareness of the importance of the visual language nowadays. It will be an inspiring day of informal sessions within an international environment, from which we will seek to learn how to put film education on the European school map.


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MANUEL A. TRINIDAD et al., v. PRET A MANGER (USA) LIMITED, et al.
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OVERVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT
TO: CERTAIN PERSONS WHO HAVE WORKED FOR PRET A MANGER (USA) LIMITED ("PRET") IN NEW YORK AS NON-EXEMPT (HOURLY) EMPLOYEES
YOU ARE A CLASS MEMBER IF YOU MEET ALL OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
You were employed by Pret as a team member, team member star, barista, team member trainer, kitchen team leader, shop team leader, team leader, or any other non-exempt non-management store position in New York at any time from August 9, 2006 until March 28, 2014.
If you received the Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action Lawsuit and Fairness Hearing, based on Pret's records, you may be a Class Member who is entitled to participate in the proposed $910,000 settlement of the case captioned Manuel Trinidad et al. v. Pret A Manger (USA) Limited et al. (the "Lawsuit"). It contains important information about your rights concerning the class action settlement described below.
Plaintiff in this lawsuit was employed by Pret as a non-exempt (hourly) team member. He alleges that Defendants in the case violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and the New York Labor Law ("NYLL") by failing to pay non-exempt (hourly) employees for all the hours they worked, including applicable overtime pay for hours over forty in a workweek, by improperly pooling tips, by failing to provide accurate wage statements and wage notices, and by failing to provide spread of hours, certain uniform-related costs, and call-in pay, among other claims. Plaintiff, for himself and others he claims are similarly situated, sought to recover unpaid wages and other back pay, liquidated damages and penalties, injunctive relief and attorneys' fees and costs. A number of other current or former non-exempt (hourly) employees (the "Opt-In Plaintiffs") have opted to join Plaintiff in this litigation.
Defendants have denied and continue to deny any wrongdoing and deny any and all liability and damages with respect to the alleged facts or causes of action asserted in the Lawsuit. To avoid the burden, expense, inconvenience, and uncertainty of continued litigation, however, Defendants have concluded that it is in their best interests to resolve and settle the Lawsuit by entering into a settlement agreement (the "Settlement").
The Lawsuit is presently before Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Engelmayer has not made any decisions on the merits of the case. On March 28, 2014., Judge Engelmayer conditionally certified this matter as a class action and granted preliminary approval of the Settlement, subject to a fairness hearing which will take place on September 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m..
WHAT DOES THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDE?
Plaintiff and Defendants have agreed to the Settlement summarized below. The complete terms and conditions of the proposed Settlement are on file with the Clerk. The settlement agreement will not become effective unless and until it receives final court approval, and any appeals are exhausted.
(a) What are the benefits of the settlement
Class Members who do not opt out, will be eligible to receive a specified share of the $910,000 settlement fund, less certain deductions described below, based on a formula approved by the Court.
The following adjustments will be made to the $910,000 amount prior to distribution of the settlement funds to Class Members:
Settlement Administration Fees: A reserve will be set aside for reasonable costs associated with administering the Settlement (estimated to be $35,000). The reserve will be used to pay a claims administration company for mailings, processing claims, providing information and assistance to Class Members, and preparing information reported to the Court.
Attorneys' Fees and Costs: Class Counsel will seek, and Defendants will not oppose, an award covering fees not to exceed 33% of the $910,000 settlement fund described above, plus reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses. All fee awards, costs and expenses paid to Class Counsel will be paid from the settlement fund. Class Counsel have expended considerable time and effort in the prosecution of this litigation on a contingent basis, and they have advanced the expenses of this litigation in the expectation that if they were successful in obtaining a recovery in the matter, they would be paid from that recovery. In this type of litigation, it is customary for counsel to be awarded a percentage of the recovery to cover attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses.
Service Payments: If the Court approves such payments, certain individuals will receive payments because they provided service to the Class by helping Class Counsel to formulate claims. Specifically, Plaintiff will seek $7,500 each on behalf of himself and each Opt-In Plaintiff who has provided testimony in this case. The payments outlined in this paragraph are separate from and in addition to the share of the settlement fund that Plaintiff and the Opt-In Plaintiffs receiving service payments may otherwise be eligible to receive.
Each Class Member will receive a share of the Net Settlement Amount (that is, the settlement funds that remain after deductions are made for claims administration costs, service payments, and attorneys' fees and expenses).
(i) Alternate Payments to Class Members Who Worked for Pret for One Week or Less
There is a small percentage of Class Members who were employed by Pret for only one week or less. If you are one of these individuals, your share of the Net Settlement Amount will be $5.
(ii) Individual Distributions For Other Class Members
The share to be allocated to each Class Member other than those described in the preceding section will be based upon the number of weeks that you were employed by Pret as an non-exempt (hourly) employee during the relevant time period. Specifically, your share will be calculated as follows:
First, an "Individual Numerator" will be calculated for you. The Individual Numerator shall equal the number of weeks that you worked for Pret as a non-exempt (hourly) employee between August 9, 2006 and March 28, 2014.
Second, a "Total Denominator" will be calculated. The Total Denominator will equal the Individual Numerator of each Class Member added together.
Third, your "Share Percentage" will be calculated. Your Share Percentage equals your Individual Numerator divided by the Total Denominator.
Fourth, your share of the Net Settlement Fund will be determined. Your share equals your Share Percentage times the amount of the Net Settlement Amount less the sum of the Alternate Payments described above.
By signing or negotiating your settlement check, you affirm your agreement with the following statement:
"By signing, endorsing, depositing, cashing or negotiating this check, I hereby opt into the collective action under Case No. 12-cv-6094 (S.D.N.Y.) pursuant to Section 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), and give my consent to become a party. I further understand and agree to the release of claims set forth in Section 6.b of the Notice I was provided."
You should keep in mind that even if you don't sign, negotiate, endorse, deposit or cash your settlement check, you will still be bound by the release described in Section 6(b) of this notice if you do not opt out.
CLASS MEMBER OPTIONS
DO NOTHING – If you wish to receive a distribution from the settlement fund, you do not need to take any action. If the Court provides final approval, you will receive a settlement check as long as you do not opt out.
OPT OUT OF THE SETTLEMENT – You have the right to exclude yourself, and yourself only, from this Lawsuit and Settlement. If you choose to exclude yourself, you will not be barred from seeking relief with respect to any legal claims and will be free to pursue an individual claim, if any, against Defendant, but you will not be eligible to receive the benefits of this Settlement.If you intend to exclude yourself, you must complete the enclosed Opt-Out Statement and mail it to the Claims Administrator at the address below. The Opt-Out Statement must be mailed to the Claims Administrator via First Class United States Mail, postage prepaid, and postmarked no later than June 9, 2014.
OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT – If you want to present objections at the Fairness Hearing, you must submit a written statement of the objection(s) to the Claims Administrator at the address below. Your objection will not be heard unless it is mailed to the Claims Administrator via First Class United States Mail, postage prepaid. To be effective any objections must be postmarked no later than June 9, 2014 and received by the Claims Administrator no later than June 16, 2014. You do not need to be represented by counsel to object. If you wish to present your objection at the fairness hearing, you must state your intention to do so in your written objection. You may hire a lawyer to assist you with your objection or to represent you at the Fairness Hearing.
UPDATE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION Click HERE to submit updated contact information
Preliminary approval March 28, 2014
Deadline for filing exclusion requests Postmarked no later than June 9, 2014
Final Fairness Hearing September 5, 2014
Estimated date for issuing settlement awards September 4, 2014
PARTICIPATING IN CLASS AND SETTLEMENT
If you wish to receive a distribution from the settlement fund, you do not need to take any action. If the Court provides final approval, you will receive a settlement check as long as you do not opt out.
Class Counsel will seek, and Defendants will not oppose, an award covering fees not to exceed 33% of the $910,000 settlement fund described above, plus reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses. All fee awards, costs and expenses paid to Class Counsel will be paid from the settlement fund. Class Counsel have expended considerable time and effort in the prosecution of this litigation on a contingent basis, and they have advanced the expenses of this litigation in the expectation that if they were successful in obtaining a recovery in the matter, they would be paid from that recovery. In this type of litigation, it is customary for counsel to be awarded a percentage of the recovery to cover attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses.
OPTING OUT OF CLASS AND SETTLEMENT
You have the right to exclude yourself, and yourself only, from this Lawsuit and Settlement. If you choose to exclude yourself, you will not be barred from seeking relief with respect to any legal claims and will be free to pursue an individual claim, if any, against Defendant, but you will not be eligible to receive the benefits of this Settlement.
If you intend to exclude yourself, you must complete the enclosed Opt-Out Statement and mail it to the Claims Administrator at the address below. The Opt-Out Statement must be mailed to the Claims Administrator via First Class United States Mail, postage prepaid, and POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN JUNE 9, 2014.
Trinidad v. PRET A MANGER (USA) LIMITED
c/o American Legal Claim Services, LLC
FINAL FAIRNESS HEARING
The Court has granted preliminary approval of the proposed Settlement, concluding preliminarily that the Settlement is fair, adequate, and reasonable and that the proposed distribution of the Settlement amount is fair, adequate, and reasonable.
A hearing will be held to determine whether final approval of the Settlement will be granted, and also to determine the amount of attorneys' fees, costs and service payments to be awarded. At the hearing, the Court will hear objections, if any, and arguments concerning the fairness of the proposed Settlement, the request for reasonable attorneys' fees and costs and the request for service payments. The hearing will take place before Judge Engelmayer on September 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as practicable, at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007. The time and date of this hearing may be continued or adjourned, so please contact Class Counsel prior to the date of the hearing if you plan to attend.
YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO ATTEND THIS HEARING. YOU MAY ATTEND THE HEARING IF YOU PLAN TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT. YOU MAY ALSO RETAIN YOUR OWN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU IN YOUR OBJECTIONS. IF YOU WISH TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT, YOU MUST SUBMIT A WRITTEN OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTION. IF YOU WISH TO APPEAR AT THE HEARING TO DISCUSS YOUR OBJECTION YOU MUST STATE IN YOUR OBJECTION YOUR INTENTION TO APPEAR AT THE FAIRNESS HEARING.
OBJECTING TO THE SETTLEMENT
If you want to present objections at the Fairness Hearing, you must submit a written statement of the objection(s) to the Claims Administrator at the address below. Your objection will not be heard unless it is mailed to the Claims Administrator via First Class United States Mail, postage prepaid. To be effective any objections must be postmarked no later than June 9, 2014 and received by the Claims Administrator no later than June 16, 2014. You do not need to be represented by counsel to object. If you wish to present your objection at the fairness hearing, you must state your intention to do so in your written objection. You may hire a lawyer to assist you with your objection or to represent you at the Fairness Hearing.
If you have questions about this Notice, or want additional information, you can:
1. Review the Important Documents or Frequently Asked Questions pages on this website.
2. Contact the Class Action Hotline at 1-800-937-5703.
3. Email the case team at [email protected]
4. You can examine the Court Records.
The foregoing description of the case is general and does not cover all of the issues and proceedings thus far. In order to see the complete file, including a copy of the settlement agreement, you should visit the Clerk of Court, United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007. The Clerk will make all files relating to this lawsuit available to you for inspection and copying at your own expense. You may enter an appearance in this case through an attorney if you so desire.
5. You can contact Class Counsel at (212) 465-1180.
For further details regarding Class member options, please review the Important Documents posted on this website.
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One baby was born and another died last week. Why do we only care about one?
Denis Muller
William and Kate leaving hospital on Tuesday
By DENIS MULLER
Seventeen minutes they gave it on Channel Seven's evening news. A one-fact story: the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have given birth to a boy (later named George), who will be third in line to the British (and Australian) throne. Well, alright, three facts.
But how the media stretched those out. Public reaction, official reaction, political reaction, family reaction, commentary from "experts" in parenting. And finally the endless speculation: when would we get our first glimpse of the baby? What name would be chosen? Would he visit Australia?
All standard stuff for what the media know to be a big story. But why is it a big story? To find the answer, we need to rummage around in a collection of instinctual, semi-rational, occasionally rational and sometimes magical artifacts called "news values". The royal baby story generates quite an array.
The first is "cultural proximity", allied in this case to "fame by being royal". This is a mighty powerful combination. They are the ingredients in the alchemy that creates the editorial gold of royal births, weddings, break-ups, love affairs, scandals, anniversaries, deaths and funerals.
Front page of The Australian.
Cultural proximity is a bloodless term for something that is really very warm-blooded. It is about the closeness we feel to people with whom we closely identify, who are like "us".
We feel we know them well, even at a distance. We feel we understand them and they understand us, and no words are needed to explain why. We go back a long way. We share interests and traditions. We share important values. We share ties of blood.
Cultural proximity between Australians of Anglo-Irish descent and Britain and Ireland is close. It is why, for example, the terrorist attack on the London underground in 2005 that killed 52 civilians received more extensive coverage in Australia than a similar attack on the Madrid train service in 2004 that killed 191.
"Fame by being royal" is a sub-category of a bigger news value – prominence – that has to do with power, authority, prestige and celebrity. The royal family embodies all these. Seen in this light, the attention given to the royal baby has a rational aspect: it concerns Australia's head of state, since he is an heir to that position. But it would be a mistake to think that this was any more than a third-order factor in news decisions about the Prince of Cambridge.
Of greater importance by far is the media's instinctive understanding of the emotional investment that many Australians still repose in the British royal family. This amplifies the cultural proximity effect many times over. We know this emotional investment exists because of the addiction to royal stories by women's magazines, an addiction that derives entirely from circulation. It's not as though the royal family are big advertisers.
After so much gush and adulation, it was a rude shock when the television news channels moved on to the next story. In the case of SBS and the ABC – each of which gave seven minutes to the royal baby – that next story was about asylum seekers. It brought irresistibly to mind the fate of another baby, a one-year-old lying in the Christmas Island mortuary, about whom the administrator of Christmas Island, John Stanhope, had spoken publicly a week ago.
Stanhope lamented the government policy of not naming asylum seekers.
I wish that in our discourse we would not look at asylum seekers as a bulk but as individual human beings that have hopes and aspirations and dreams and feel the same pain as each of us.
We have a one-year-old baby in our mortuary, and I wish we named him. We don't name the deceased publicly and I wish we humanised them.
It's hard to think of anything that more starkly illustrates the difference between the cultural proximity Australia as a nation feels towards Britain, and the cultural remoteness it feels towards peoples from where these asylum seekers are coming – the Middle East and south Asia. It is striking to observe how this translates into attitudes and policies.
An infant asylum seeker is carried from a boat by Indonesian police. What does the death of another very young asylum seeker at sea tell us about 'cultural proximity'?
It is also striking to reflect upon the very different news values that govern news decisions about asylum seeker stories. The main news values here are negativity – bad news is usually a bigger story than good news – and conflict, as a story that generates controversy is usually a bigger story than one that does not.
And there are other news values at work here too. One is the value of clarity – where the good guys and the bad guys are easily identifiable and the story line is simple. The other is consonance – where we are told a story we already know, a story that reinforces our existing understanding of the world and our prejudices.
It is these two news values that blend to create media stereotypes which political message-makers then exploit to manufacture slogans. These in turn become part of the discourse of conflict and negativity that generates new headlines and keeps the cycle rolling on.
If we humanise asylum seekers, as Stanhope wishes, it complicates this process. Clarity is replaced by ambiguity. It is no longer so easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Asylum seekers begin to look more like us. Cultural remoteness shrinks a little.
Consonance gives way to dissonance. Perhaps this isn't quite the story we thought it was. Might our prejudices be unfounded?
The headlines and slogans lose a little bit of power. Who knows where that might end?
Denis Muller is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
This post was originally published on The Conversation and has been republished with full permission. You can view the original post here.
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Bronwyn 7 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, BUT ... Didn't you have crap splashed all over the net when the baby was born?!? All media is the same. How does the saying go? Pot calling the kettle black ...
Kaz 7 years ago
Are you serious ? How is it that parents, taking a horrendous risk for not only their own safety but that of a child, becomes the fault of a government policy? Shame on the Labor party for making it attractive for REAL refugees to come here? Shame on the Liberal party for previously having policies that STILL had refugee boats full of people - I even know one who came here, on a boat, during that time. And she & her family WERE true refugees.
Shame on you, Denis,for collapsing part of our history, heritage, monarchy, (yes, last time I looked, republicans were outvoted), with a crass comparison like this. To keep consistent, I suggest next article compares recent new McDonalds menu additions with starving Ethiopian children. Wake up to yourself. Very
Disappointed, Mamamia, for the very
FIRST time, in one of your posts
Ok I've had my say. Now I need a glass of wine...


If I may have a word. I'm sure you had your reasons for coming when you did, but may I be so blunt as to remind you, no one likes an early houseguest. I don't care much for your clock advancements anyhow, but did you have to come when there was still snow on the ground?
I understand this whole hullabaloo of pushing our clocks forward grew out of an effort to ration candles in the early days and later electricity, but can't I just promise to not turn on the lights until after 7:30pm?
Early to bed, early to rise. That's been our motto. So why is Daylight Savings purported to be Ben Franklin's brainchild when it flies in the face of his most famous maxim? Do you know how hard it is to rise early when every cell in your body moans that it's 4 o'clock in the morning? The pitch dark and bitter cold aren't helping your cause. My eyelids have gained two pounds.
Mr. DS, did you know my young children have piano lessons at 7am? 7am. The sky used to be swished with pinks and yellows as they walked to the neighbor's for lessons. Now it's black as ink in a don't-forget-your-flashlight, frightening sort of way. It used to be a pleasant time slot. Now getting them up, fed, dressed and out the door all while fumbling around in the dark so as not to wake the baby that finally fell asleep, well, our new routine feels more like hazing.
And that's another thing, MR. DS. My baby used to go down every night at 8pm like clock work. Emphasis on "used to." Now I have a very fussy, very shrill baby on my hip during the whirlwind of everyone else's bedtime routines. And remember–I've been up since what feels like 4am. And believe it or not, the virtue called patience, ironically, has a time limit.
To be frank, I wasn't thrilled to have you stay through the summer– it's nearly impossible to put tired children to bed before 10pm when it's still light enough outside to sunbathe, but I was willing to put up with your summertime shenanigans because summer is summer.
But now I hear you intend to extend your stay until November? This is unacceptable. This is a deal breaker. Just how many weeks into the new school year will you insist my children march off to the bus in the dark? Only to re-invite yourself to stay again 4 months later? Your hostess needs more time to recover. My apologies for my boldness, but there it is.
I know you mean well. You're trying to give me the gift of time. The gift of daylight. I do not wish to be misunderstood, so I will use small words: I do not want it. You believe your gift is time, but I assure you your "gift" feels as though time is being ripped away. Each time I glance at the clock, I'm horrified to find the hour is more advanced than I thought. The afternoons are passing at a lightening pace since you settled in and I don't like it one bit.
I only have a few precious years with all my children living at home. A few precious years is all I get. The time is passing faster than I'd like without your meddling. Please stop insisting on pushing these hours forward because in a few years, November or no, I will never be able to turn these clocks back.
I look forward to your response. Until then, I'll be Googling the Internet for real estate in either Arizona or Hawaii.
Mr. Congressman; You were elected to represent us. Do So! We do not want DST. Furthermore, when you imposed this unnatural experience on us you PROMISED that you would study the results and report to us the benefits. Where is that report? Go ahead and publish it is you dare because I know that the result of DST is more gasoline wasted not less. Be honest this time and report the truth -- Go ahead, no other politician has done so -- be a precedent breaker.
Loved your humorous, but oh-so-true description of DST. I totally agree with the absurdity of trying to "save" daylight, since it messes things up on one end of the day or the other whenever the switch is made.