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The Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill 2013
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| Speech delivered at: 35th Sitting- Tenth Parliament
Mr. Greenidge: Thank you very much Mr. Speaker, I will perhaps be much more appreciative of your congratulations after we will have passed it but nonetheless I would not… [Interruption] Thank you very much. I hope that we would be able to entertain and pass a number of others in the wake of this particular one.
Mr. Speaker, it is perhaps especially significant, the point that you make, in the light of the fact that this Bill has been the subject of a motion that was extensively debated, and which motion pertains to concerns about the constitutionality of at least one act of Parliament which is inconsistent with the Constitution that we currently embrace. The motion to which I made reference gave rise to Resolution No. 11 of 2012, and as I am indicating the concerns that have caused us to still be looking at the issues are the concerns that, notwithstanding that motion, we drew to the attention of the Government the fact that the schedule of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act itself infringed directly the provisions of article 222 and 222A of the Constitution. We remain in the situation where that Act is un-amended by the Government. That is the reason why we have brought this Bill to the House, In essence what we are saying is that the Bill deals with a number of agencies which are meant to be part of the framework that are intended to protect our fundamental rights. I am speaking here of the Judiciary, the Service Commissions, the Ombudsman, the Public Procurement Commission, the Auditor General's Office, which has subsequently been fixed as it were, and GECOM. The safeguards are intended primarily to protect our individual rights as well as the collective rights; those rights that we enjoy, and which the Government in exercise of its functions can sometimes be in conflict. I would say the Bill, and the attempt to deal with this issue, is particularly important at this point in time when I think a number of people feel, and a number of public debates point to challenges of these individual rights that are enshrined in the Constitution.
I would like to, perhaps, make a couple of opening observations, as it were, before turning to the specifics of the Bill. And I make these observations in light of some comments you yourself flagged when the Paper was laid for the first reading, and some of which arose from the interventions of the other side when they were attempts to have the Bill not considered. Amongst the first of those was a suggestion that the Opposition should be required to present a white paper prior to the submission of this Bill on constitutional issues. I would like to say that apart from the fact that under the dispensation that we have, which is similar to that of the Westminster system, white papers are matters of policy for the Government. When the Minister of Finance in 2003 introduced the entire Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, not an amendment, he did not see it fit to do so with a white paper. That Bill, in fact, is the Bill that I am arguing which actually jeapordised our rights in the sense that it infringed articles 222 and 222A of the Constitution. Somehow the Government, at the time, did not feel it necessary to implement a white paper for such a sweeping bill, but certainly for an amendment we are being asked to present a white paper. In any case, I see under the current dispensation this is out of order. When the motion was announced on Order Paper No. 20 the Minister of Finance reacted by taking the Auditor General's Office from the schedule and no white paper was involved. This is as it should, because I am contending there is absolutely no constitutional requirement for a white paper and it is inappropriate for the Opposition to be required, and let alone a Private Member's Bill, to be accompanied by a white paper.
The other observation is that the amendment of the schedule requires an amendment of the Constitution. That is an interesting view but, again, it would have been a lot more persuasive if when the Government itself modified the Act by taking the Auditor General's Office from the schedule they had seen it fit to do so by way of a constitutional change. So I fail to see any justification for such a recommendation and, in fact, I suspect the recommendation that was being made was made on the assumption that a two-thirds majority would have been required to make the constitutional change effective. I am sorry to disappoint our colleagues on the other side. In fact, as we will show in a few days time when we seek to effect that change in the Constitution, it requires no two thirds majority. I am saying that we are going along with their recommendation, and I hope they will find it fit to lend their support to this as well as that amendment.
Also, may I say there is the apparent conflict arising from section 82 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act which section says the Minister may by order amend the schedule. There was a re-interpretation of this which suggests that if the Minister may amend the schedule then the House could not amend the schedule. I have sought advice on this since I myself am not well versed in these areas, and I am persuaded that the drafting of the Act in that manner could never have intended to disenfranchise the House. The House then delegates responsibilities to Ministers, the Minister passes an order and that could never mean, and it ought not to have intended to mean, that if the Minister has the power to pass an order to modify the Act then the House has not any power in that regard. Of course, it cannot mean that because the House itself could repeal the Act which has been done at times in the past. So I as I said, having consulted feel the House retains its power to amend any legislation which the House itself passes.
The other observation I will tackle a little later, but the idea is that the deletion of agencies from the budget agencies listed on the schedule would somehow disenfranchise those entities that are removed. I, again, challenge this because there are many entities that are not on that schedule which receive State moneys. They receive the moneys which is reflected in the Estimates of annual revenue and expenditure and is therefore not required to be on the schedule. There are also many entities that are neither mentioned in the FMAA Act directly nor in schedule 222A of the Constitution and they also receive state moneys. So the suggestion that if the entities do not appear under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act they cannot get funds is not really accurate. And I will give you an idea of the specific ones a little later.
We might now turn to the substance. If you have a look at the Constitution you will find that article 222A lists a number of agencies in the Third Schedule and those entities include, and I am not going to read all of them, the Ethnic Relations Commission, the Human Rights Commission, and for our purposes now, the Judiciary, and the Office of the Auditor General. That is what article 222A says. But article 222 itself tells you something about the entities so listed. What it tells you in the body, sections 5 to 7 which deal with the properties or characteristics of those agencies, is that they are independent and no other agency should interfere with their operations. More specifically article 222A says they are to be (a), and I quote:
"…a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund and determined by a lump sum way of annual subvention approved by the National Assembly."
Let me just take the time, Mr. Speaker, to draw to your attention that if you look at the Estimates you will find lump sum payments specifically in the sections that deal with Details of Subsidies and Contributions, meaning it is a one line allocation; and you will find them in the subsequent section that deals with the Details of Subsidies and Contributions to International Organisations. The entities in question are not listed here, all the entities that I will highlighted. This means that although the Constitution on the one hand says these agencies should receive lump sum payments not subject to financial management that will infringe their financial independence the Ministry of Finance has a number of these agencies under the FMAA Act called budget agencies, and when they are budget agencies certain things follow from that.
The FMAA list, its own schedule, has 39 agencies which could be divided into five categories; specific ministries - Office of the President, Office of the Prime Minister; Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is the secondary category; GDF is a third; Regions 1 to 10 a fourth, then there are what I call others. These make up the 39. But in or amongst the 39 are others that are in direct breach of the Constitution. The Constitution says that the Judiciary is supposed to be independent and should have lump sum payments. We have on this legislation the Judiciary named here as a budget agency not in receipt of any lump sum payments. As you might see from the front of the Estimates the Supreme Court of Judicature and the Elections Commission, for example, have specific pages which the Minister of Finance may amend before it reaches the House, and it comes with the Ministry's recommendations. This was never the intention or the meaning of independence in the Constitution. So the Supreme Court, the Chamber of the Director of Public Prosecutions actually is not specifically mentioned or treated as a budgetary agency.
Budgetary agencies have some characteristics that I would like to draw to the House's attention. Budgetary agencies are agencies that in addition to being subject to line by line management by the Ministry of Finance in the sense of when the budget proposal goes to him he can change any of the line items and not the sum total in a lump sum manner, these agencies on the schedule are answerable to the Finance Secretary for all matters falling in the purview of the officer answerable for the agency. They are not, and I stress, they are not required to be answerable on all financial matters. The court, for example, could find itself being quizzed by the financial secretary on matters pertaining to court cases. And except for Order No. 20, which the Minister of Finance passed, these agencies remain subject to supervision by the Ministry of Finance. The Minister can amend their budget submissions, he can terminate or delay disbursements within the fiscal year notwithstanding the budget approved by this House if, and to quote the words of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act section 33(4):
"He may delay or terminate those disbursements if at any time he believes that the exigencies justify them."
He may also suspend the payment of any expenditure of public moneys and, as I mentioned, the details of the proposals can be amended. I am saying that these discretions that are exercised by the Finance Secretary and the Minister of Finance are unconstitutional because the Constitution at article 222 is unambiguous, it is very clear. It says no one should interfere with their independence in the exercise of their functions, and that their money should be provided specifically as lump sum payments. So the agencies, Office of the Ombudsman, GECOM, Parliament Office, the Service Commissions – Police, Public, Teaching - and the Public Service Appellate Tribunal, are agencies listed in the Constitution as independent. The Ombudsman, for example, is under title 5, subtitle 2, and so forth. Under the Constitutions of these individual entities, as I had indicated at the time of the motion, and as well under Chapters 2, 5, 6, and 7 of the Constitution these agencies are supposed to be treated as independent. The specific references to paragraphs or sections are Public Procurement Commission 212W to 212EE; the Service Commissions section 5 title 7, the Human Rights, Women, Gender and so forth are all there, and the Public Service Appellate Tribunal. Article 212G (2) says commissions in general shall be independent and a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund. That is just in case one has forgotten that article 222 actually says that.
The article 217(4) also goes on to say that in respect to service commissions Parliament prescribes the manner in which the withdrawals may be made from the Consolidated Fund or any other public fund. So I think it is very important we recognise, acknowledge and remedy this breach of the Constitution as a matter of urgency; it has being there in existence for over nine years. And for those who are concerned that the power of a lump sum payment hands a blank cheque to agencies such as the Judiciary, let me say Mr. Speaker, you will remember we had this exchange in the course of the motion, that the terms governing accountability of these, what I call constitutional agencies, are specified in the Constitution under articles 216, 217 and 218 as well as 222A and B. I believe that those provisions are adequate. Notwithstanding all of this, the agencies remain inappropriately listed as budget agencies.
And may I go on to say that in March 2012 the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in the preliminary discussions, before the Alliance For Change (AFC) was involved in those exchanges, when we had gone to speak to the People's Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) about their willingness to change the budget, we had given them a list of items that we wanted to see treated in the budget. Amongst those listed was this particular item. I would like to say - because I know we have colleagues on the other side who are very fond of rendering their versions of reports of joint discussions - that we did actually engage in an exchange over the removal of these items. It was in that exchange, if I may say, that Dr. Luncheon waxed very warmly on the sympathy of the Government in correcting these oversights but saying, unfortunately, almost with tears in his eyes, that this could only be done if it had the benefit of a two thirds majority. As I have indicated to you, I do not need to be delayed by that now, but my reading of the Constitution is that particular matter article 222A requires no two-thirds majority. Therefore, we will be seeking in a few days time to lay a bill to amend the Constitution and bring the entities that are constitutional entities properly under schedule 3 of the Constitution.
However, the motion on this matter of the constitutionality of including constitutional agencies as budgetary agencies did require the Government to do some things fairly specific; and I just want to be sure at this stage that we understand what is being proposed. I know there are a number of queries raised about whether the agencies need to be on one list or the other, as I mentioned before. Let me just say to You, Mr. Speaker, and to colleagues, that agencies currently receive state funds although they are not mentioned on either list; I mentioned that earlier. If you look at the list of agencies which receive state funding in one form or the other these include GNNL, you will probably know this as one of the subsidiaries of NICIL; there is the Lethem Power Company, which we had cause to devote a lot of time to last year; NICIL itself receives resources although it is not mentioned under either list – the Constitution or the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act – National Communications Network (NCN); and statutory bodies like CHPA, which we were just chatting about, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Lands and Surveys Commission, University of Guyana (UG), Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and National Trust, all of these are agencies mentioned in neither of the two documents, neither one the lists nor the schedules, but they receive moneys. I am reacting to a query that arose during the course of the exchanges which suggested that if the entities were not mentioned, if they were taken off of this schedule of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act they would be in limbo and therefore you would not know their rights. That is the observation I would like to make here.
I would go on to say that even egregiously many agencies, which do not enjoy the statutory standing of these constitutional agencies appear in this section that deals with lump sum or block votes - Lethem Power Company is one of them - and they have privileges which the Constitution sought to endow the constitutional agencies with, but which the constitutional agencies do not enjoy.
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So that is the observation I would like to make here, further emphasising the unconstitutionality or the unconstitutional nature arising from the inclusion of a number of these agencies under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.
I would also like to say to you that again this question of whether taking them off the list would make a difference, if you look again at the Estimates themselves, you will find under Agency Code 11- GECOM and under Agency Code 7 – Parliament Office and so forth, these are the agencies we are taking off. They are already in the Estimates. Therefore, the Estimates specify that they can receive resources.
My quarrel or my contention is that, insofar as they are under these Agency Codes, Supreme Court, for example, under 55, Public Prosecution under 56, the Appellate Tribunal and so forth. They are not treated in the manner specified by the Constitution and we need now to make sure that the Appropriation Act reflects the requirement of the Constitution, so that they receive moneys by way of block votes and you can treat them, if you want, as are the Statutory Expenditures shown under 4.5 of these Estimates, where a number a agencies whose moneys cannot be changed after they have been approved are listed. You can do the same with the Constitutional Agencies.
Mr. Speaker and colleagues, these are the main points I would like to make in relation to the Bill. It is quite a straightforward Bill. It simply seeks to take off the schedule, those agencies that should not be here. They should not be here, not because we do not like them on there, but because the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, requires that they be treated as financially independent. The supreme law of the land cannot be subsidiary to the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act, especially when the Act includes a number of agencies that conveniently fall under the control of the Ministry of Finance and in many instances appears under the Office of the President, which is an even more egregious mode of treatment.
In the light of these points, Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I would like to commend to you the Bill and to urge that you lend it your support since it is worthy. May I make one point before closing? It is to pick up an observation made by I think by the Hon. Minister of Finance when they were trying to block the consideration of this particular Bill. The first item that is listed in the Draft is the Judicial Service Commission and the Service Commission actually does not appear on the Schedule, so that we can amend. I do not think it is a big issue, but all the others appear on the Schedule of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act. I thank you very much for your patience. [Applause]
Mr. Greenidge (replying): Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I wish to thank colleagues for contributing to the deliberations on this particular item and to say that the observations made by the distinguished Minister of Finance as regards the additional items turned out to be the every item that I drew to the attention of the House. It is a little bit of a "Columbus" here. We agree that that element could be removed.
Secondly, as regards the intension of the bill: The intension of the bill was the same intension that it informed the Minister when he removed the Auditor General's Office from the schedule; exactly the same. Now he is telling us that it has no merit. They removed it for the same reason except, of course, the arrangement surrounding the Auditor General and the Auditor General's Office are a little less transparent. Let us leave it that way. We will see in time. It was removed as it should have been removed and as the others should have been removed at the same time also. It should not have needed us to bring it here because it was drawn to their attention. [Mrs. Backer: We would have supported it.] Yes.
As regards, if you like, the operational dimension of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Agency for these constitutional offices may I say, again, that I did also draw attention now and in the course of the debate on the motion to the fact that the entities are to be held to the same accounting standards and auditing standards as all the others so again that is nothing new. I said it and I think that we have no difficulty with that idea.
Mr. Speaker, may I take the opportunity to say to you that it is true that removing these entities from the list would not, by itself, ensure that they are constitutional offices exempt from what I call the discretion of the Minister of Finance and the Financial Secretary but in order to ensure that the progress in this House was not held up we went ahead with this amendment and we will be brining an additional amendment which will help to clarify some of the very points made by the Minister. They will be laid within a day or two; not arising from anything he said but just to reflect the points that he made. It is good that we share with him the idea that additional factors are needed.
We are not here to determine whether Article 164 applies to Article 222 and not Article 222 A or Article 222 A and not Article 222 B. We will deal with that when we come with the constitutional amendment but for the moment let it be noted that Article 222 A - we agree with the Minister - is not reflected in Article 164 and that is sufficient for us for the time being; when in fact the amendment there made by way of the introduction of these items under the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act was done by way of a simple majority. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I commend the bill to colleagues.

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He rifles through his wallet, recalling the happiness of cashing in a completed Caffe Nero loyalty card or coming across his bank card and idly commenting: 'I've been with Lloyd's for a couple of years now. Pretty happy with them.' There is no joke, other than the audacity of a man coming on stage with no punchlines.
Add in in the juxtaposition of a 70-year-old singing the praises of the Sugababes, with sincerity if not vitality, and you have the closing routine.
But for all that he is laid-back, Lovett's content not as aimless as it appears, at least not all of it. He has some wry observations about the items he has about his person, from uncookable pasta to irritatingly tiny capsules of long-life milk, lamenting how the world will never move on if we can't sort these things out. His world is fixed in the minutiae, and he knows his petty concerns will get laughs.
There are, now and again, fully-formed routines: from his fanciful plan of how to escape a Deliverance-style fate should he find himself in redneck territory, to observations about vaping. But he's just as happy playing with plastic bags, as he's done for so long, pondering whether he has the deftness of hand to become a magician.
Authenticity is what you get. If he gets distracted by an audience member, it's not in the artificial pursuit of an easy gag, just that he genuinely got distracted. Memories of his pug Elvis, who died last year, are sweetly melancholic reminiscences, not part of anything greater.
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He's been doing this so long that nothing much changes in his stand-up, and while the many lulls can be dissatisfying, there are also moments of simple pleasure. And an old man putting a bag designed for dog poop on his head is as entertaining for adults as it is for babies.


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Zyzomys är ett släkte av däggdjur. Zyzomys ingår i familjen råttdjur.

Systematik

Arter enligt Catalogue of Life och Wilson & Reeder (2005):

 Zyzomys argurus
 Zyzomys maini
 Zyzomys palatalis
 Zyzomys pedunculatus
 Zyzomys woodwardi

Beskrivning

Dessa gnagare når en kroppslängd (huvud och bål) av 9 till 18 cm samt en svanslängd av 9 till 13 cm. Vikten varierar mellan 35 och 130 gram för de arter som blev uppmätt. Den styva pälsen har en grå eller brun färg på ovansidan och en vit färg på buken. Svansen är bra täckt med hår som antingen är mörka på ovansidan och ljusa på undersidan eller svansen är helt vit. Kännetecknande är svansens hud som blir tjockare under individens liv så att gamla individer har en påfallande tjock svans.

Zyzomys förekommer i Australien i norra Western Australia, norra Northern Territory och norra Queensland. Habitatet utgörs av skogar med tät undervegetation eller buskskogar på klippig mark.

Individerna är främst aktiva på natten. De äter frön, frukter och andra växtdelar.

Honor kan para sig hela året men hos vissa arter föds de flesta ungar under den australiska hösten. Dräktigheten varar cirka 33 dagar och en kull har upp till sex ungar. Ungarna blir efter fyra eller fem månader könsmogna. Bara ett fåtal individer lever något längre än två år.

Z. palatilis och Z. pedunculatus är mycket sällsynt och de listas därför av IUCN som akut hotad (CR), Z. maini listas som nära hotad (NT) och de andra två arterna betraktas som livskraftiga (LC).

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Noter

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 Nowak, Ronald M. (1999): Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press,

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When is the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 2015?
When is N.I.T. Basketball Tournament in 2015?
The NIT Tournament in 2015 is scheduled to tip off on Tuesday, March 17th with the championship game being played on Thursday, April 2nd hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
What is N.I.T. Basketball Tournament?
The National Invitation Tournament, typically referred to as the NIT Tournament, is a NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men's college basketball tourney. Each NCAA men's basketball season, there are two NIT events. The first event is the NIT Season Tip-Off tourney that was founded in 1985 and is played during the pre-season. The second event, and much more popular event, is the post-season NIT Tourney that was founded in 1938. Originally, both events were managed by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA) but both were purchased by the NCAA in 2005. When people use the term "NIT," they are almost always referring to the post-season tournament.
Even though the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tourney is much more prominent, the NIT Tournament is actually older by one year. Created in 1938, the first tournament only featured six teams with the Temple University Owls defeating the Colorado Buffaloes for the first ever National Invitation Tournament title. The tourney expanded to feature as many as forty teams but currently only contains thirty-two teams. Currently, ESPN holds the rights for airing the games.
The NIT Tourney typically features teams that were on the bubble but did not receive an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament. As a result, the NIT carries a stigma that has resulted in some people referring to the NIT as the "Not Invited Tournament," "Not Important Team," " National Insignificant Tournament," and many other names including "Not In Tournament." Even though it may have somewhat of a negative reputation, the teams in the NIT Tournament take the tourney very seriously and should be respected for their hard work and dedication that they have displayed for the entire season.
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I don't profess to know too much about the so-called "pre-Code era" of Hollywood, though I have a book about it that I mean to read, especially urgent now that the BFI is doing a retrospective of many of these films. What I do know is that for a brief period between the start of the sound era and the enforcement of the Production Code in 1934 (a sort of voluntary self-censorship by the major studios), there was a brief flourishing of films with some rather darker and more adult themes and a view on life that didn't always reinforce cultural prejudices or end happily for the 'good guys'.
For Gold Diggers' part, its place in this era comes not from any kind of boldly proto-feminist message — no surprise given the title, though its female leads are all strong-willed and get what they want, which certainly provides some small corrective — but in its bitterly sardonic take on its Depression-era setting. It's big-budget escapism, sure, but it doesn't try to efface just what tolls living in poverty sometimes took (even if the actresses' shared apartment is rather swanky). The big closing number, "Remember My Forgotten Man", is rousing and beautifully moving — though narratively, it feels like a quite different film — and shows First World War heroes reduced to beggars and bums. Elsewhere there are hints at prostitution being a option to make ends meet for some of the 'gold diggers' we see gathered around Broadway impresario Barney Hopkins, desperate for a part in his new show.
Three of those actresses are the leads here, and share an apartment. There's Polly, the earnest one (Ruby Keeler), Carol the glamorous blonde (Joan Blondell), and Trixie the shrewdly self-interested comic actor (Aline MacMahon). The plot itself follows the putting-on-a-show narrative and throws in some love interests (or 'gold digging' interests, as far as Trixie is concerned at least), which all resolve themselves in comically perfunctory manner at the end, as uptight plutocrat Lawrence (Warren William) wrestles fairly snappily with his feelings towards Carol.
What really sets apart the film is of course the Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical numbers. I've mentioned the closing number already, while the opener ("We're in the Money") kicks things off in grand style, suggesting glamorous escapism from the country's financial woes with Ginger Rogers singing directly into camera as dancing girls clad in costumes made of gold coins swirl around her, before making it clear the bitter irony when the cops show up midway through to close things down and take away all the costumes due to (what else?) lack of money. Most fascinating is "Pettin' in the Park", a weirdly surreal number that depicts a refreshingly broad cross-section of people in the aforesaid park, before introducing a dwarf playing a lecherous baby, and an iron corset-clad Polly having her clothes prised off with a tin opener. By comparison, the other big number ("The Shadow Waltz") just seems like extra padding, though its chorus line wielding neon-lit violins certainly makes for an arresting image.
There's so much going on in this film, it's hard for me to find any particular moral coherence, but such is often the way with Hollywood's spectacles. It offers a sardonic commentary on the tolls of the Depression and Prohibition, while keeping things amorally snapping along. Its narrative of three women triumphing by exploiting the men around them is one that would be repeated in a number of pre-Code films of the era, but then there are the musical numbers which choreograph an almost endless line of flamboyant chorines, so maybe it's the filmmakers who are the gold diggers and we the audience their willing victims. In any case, it's a high-water mark of the Hollywood musical and a glorious tribute to Busby Berkeley's art.
Interesting review – I wasn't aware of the Code at all. In an ideal world I'd like to see more of this kind of thing myself, although it'd have to be on the small screen. Nice to see the origin of 'we're in the money' (I just watched it on YouTube), although I have absolutely no idea what Ginger Rogers is singing in the second half of it!
Heh yes, she does a whole verse of the song in Pig Latin, which I imagine is a nod towards censorship, but it's quite surprising.
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This 4th of July, It's All About the Red, White, and Blue
Happy Fourth of July! This year, America will be more red, white, and blue than ever before. Consumers will showoff their patriotism with themed clothing and products alongside traditional celebrations like BBQs and fireworks.
According to the National Retail Federation, 214 million Americans will celebrate the U.S.A.'s birthday and will spend $6.8 billion, up 1.4% from last year. The majority will celebrate with time-tested traditions like cookouts, BBQs, and picnics (64.5%) and fireworks (42.6%).
America is back in style, as more Americans will wear their red, white, and blue proudly to show off their patriotism. Two-thirds of Americans own a U.S. flag, half own a patriotic t-shirt, one-third own patriotic decorations, and, if they don't, almost 25% will purchase patriotic gear for the holiday (nrf.com). According to online retailer, Shinesty, sales of patriotic clothing are up 500% this year (Today.com).
With the 4th of July, the Olympics, and the election all happening in the span of a couple months, brands are packing in the patriotism with red, white, and blue themed packaging. Brands like Hershey's, Skittles, M&Ms, Smirnoff, Coca-Cola and Budweiser are tabling their traditional looks for patriotic makeovers. For the first time in its 122-year history, Hershey's is giving up its classic silver and brown for a red, white, and blue logo. In addition, Coke is extending its "Share a Coke and a Song" campaign with an American flag themed can and the lyrics "I'm proud to be an American."
With patriotic events and the future of the country on top of everyone's mind, these patriotic brands tie into consumer's desire to express their patriotism and pride. Red, white, and blue packaging pulls at the heart strings and creates buzz. But, is it enough to break the tie at shelf?
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"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." – this quote by Margaret J. Wheatley dictates the driving force we as a community have had on the PvP scene within Pokémon GO.
Without the help of communities all around around the world, we would not have these unforgettable moments in PvP Events and Tournaments. We as a community have paved the way to forge PvP into what it is now; we have shaped the future of competitive Pokémon GO as a whole and we can only hope that with the release of GO Battle League in 2020 that it will have the same competitive touch that we can currently experience from live events.
The burning question on many trainer's minds is: What happens next for Communities and the Silph Arena with the announcement of GO Battle League? and what better way to find out than to hear what some influential Community Leaders have to say and to also find out the backstories on how they have influenced their local player base and what went into the planning aspect for hosting widespread events.
Asking the Community…
I took the liberty to interview a couple of highly experienced Community Leaders, asking questions regarding their own personal experiences with hosting large-scale tournaments, what went into the planning aspect of it, what it achieved for their local PvP scene in that area, what they feel lies ahead for the future of PvP and also what they think will happen to the Silph Arena and their local PvP community when GO Battle League becomes available.
My first interview via Twitter was with the one and only ValorAsh (@ash_valor) who was #1 on the global Silph Arena ladder for a long period of time in Season 1 and finished Rank 1 in North America, a truly remarkable accomplishment and is looked up to by many in the PvP community as one of the best.
ValorAsh | Rank 1 in North America
What initially sparked your interest in Pokémon GO PvP?
I'm extremely competitive by nature and I loved playing Pokémon games as a kid. The second PvP was announced, I was absolutely stoked, it added a competitive aspect to my favorite game.
Niantic has done a great job with being receptive to feedback for PvP. Adding movesets, updating mechanics, etc. Nothing but big improvements from them. The game is already very easily accessible; it's probably the most accessible game in the world.
What do you think could be improved for Pokémon GO PvP to develop into an eSport?
I think that once people realize the skill and dedication it takes to master PvP, it'll appeal more to the hardcore gamers. The biggest gap facing Pokémon PvP and eSport status is sponsorship and prize pools in tournaments.
PvP has the action, intensity, and complexity to be an eSport. On paper, when you compare Pokémon PvP to fully fleshed eSports like Rocket League and League of Legends, the only thing that PvP lacks compared to them, quite frankly, is lavish prize pools and monetization. That's a pretty big obstacle in a free to play game, but there are a few tournaments with cash prizes popping up now.
The PvP scene is growing healthily, tournaments are getting larger and even The Pokémon Company has begun to give it more and more attention. They undeniably noticed that nine thousand people watched the Pokémon World Championships just for the opening PvP tournament at Worlds in DC. If the future of PvP is any reflection of what PvP has been, then it's a very bright future.
What do you think will happen to the Silph Arena with the announcement of GO Battle League?
The Silph Arena isn't going anywhere; if anything, it will grow in popularity with the new influx of players looking to get into PvP. Similar to Smogon, it will be able to cater more to the hardcore players and continue to provide another way for PvP players to improve and compete.
ValorAsh Winning the Ultimate Showdown Challenge
My next interview was with Bambul (@bambul), who runs the Bondi community PvP tournaments in Sydney, Australia and has hosted a 48 person tournament with special guests being famous YouTuber ZoëTwoDots and the XP King himself, Brandon Tan.
What Went into Planning Such a Large-Scale Tournament?
The main challenge was dealing with participant numbers and experience. I did some reading online on how larger tournaments handled logistics, went to the venue and considered wet weather alternatives.
We printed out instructions that included the check-in code and handed them out along with name tags, what also helped was having just about everyone who had helped to run a PvP tournament in Sydney coming along and a few of them acting as tournament staff on the day.
What Do You See For the Future of Your Local PvP Community in Sydney?
During the month of September, between Seasons One and Two in the Silph Arena, we held an invitational tournament for the top players from each of the communities in NSW and ACT. While talking to some of the participants, some told me about how this rekindled their interest in PvP. A lot were from outer suburban areas that only held 1 or 2 PvP tournaments early in Season One.
Later on, I was talking to other PvP players from Wollongong, about 2 hours South of Sydney, where they had plenty of players to raid with but had never managed to get PvP off the ground. Recently they held their first ranked tournament and look to continue that momentum into the future.
These are the real wins from my perspective. Local communities running their own events with the people they see and play with on a regular basis, these are the grassroots that keep the game alive and as long we as a community can keep this up, I see a bright future for the PvP scene in Sydney.
I don't think in-person tournaments will be negatively affected. If anything, it may boost them as more people learn how to PvP and feel confident participating, especially given the changing monthly cup format. It's important to remember that we know GO Battle League will limit how much you battle in one sitting, so I would guess that the Silph Arena and GO Battle League could complement each other rather than compete with each other.
48 Person Tournament Featuring ZoëTwoDots & Brandon Tan | Sydney, Australia
My final interview features the President of the Sydney Autism Community Lions Club, Charbel (@Charbeltadros) and has hosted a Niantic Funded Charity Event in Sydney, Australia.
What went into the planning side of hosting such a large-scale Niantic funded PvP tournament?
Lots of things had to lineup for us to be able to plan and execute this event. First of all, we had to get our club to approve this event. Once done, we had to rent a stall during the Lugarno Lions Spring Festival so that we'd have a place to run the event.
The Lugarno Lions donated the stall. After that, I wrote to Niantic partnerships who replied to me a few weeks later and gave me a link where I needed to fill in the event details. Once I did that, I got contacted a few days later by a staff member from the Social Impacts Team who guided me through the rest of the steps such as signing a trademark agreement to use the Niantic name in support of the event. She also explained to me what kind of support they would give for such events.
After everything lined up, I started reaching out to the Pokémon community in the area to invite them to the tournament, and I received a lot of support and advice from many members, some of whom participated in the event.
Were there any downfalls with this event?
The fact that the Turtwig Community Day was happening during that day did affect the event; however, many players decided to hang around our stall the full day while hunting Turtwig's around Peakhurst Park where the event was hosted.
What do you see for the future of competitive Pokémon GO PvP?
I believe that Pokémon Go PvP is looking at becoming an even bigger industry, depending on the way Niantic regulates its applications. Many charities and businesses (such as restaurants and hotels) could be able to make good money out of it, in addition to a greater engagement in their work among the Pokémon GO community.
After engaging with the Pokémon community in Sydney, which is very vibrant and interesting, I learned that many plans are in the works for a lot of fun leagues and tournaments.
Official Niantic Funded Autism Charity Event | Sydney, Australia
An Exciting Future Awaits
Well, there you have it, some first-person insight into the backstories of community leaders/idols in the Pokémon GO PvP community. Personally, I feel as though it is influential in knowing what has gone into the backbone of hosting large events that have shaped local communities around the world and have had an influence on the PvP scene as a whole.
GO Battle League will be an exciting feature to look forward to in early 2020 and we can assume that tournament hosting websites such as the Silph Arena can complement each other in one way or another with the GO Battle League.
We can only hope that features such as having a leaderboard for each country, themed tournaments, the ability to battle friends without having to be ultra friends and even the interesting idea of having the ability to ban certain Pokémon before a battle which has been implemented in Zyonik's Pokemon GO eSport Tournament.
Competitive games such as League of Legends use this feature which can add a whole different dynamic of strategy to the game and would be a great addition to GO Battle League. Not only would it be strategic, it would force players into using Pokémon outside their comfort zone as well as keeping trainers on their toes.
A huge thanks to ValorAsh, Bambul, and Charbel for taking the time to answer these questions, and all the best for future events and tournaments!
We would love to hear from YOU, the community, what you are most looking forward to when it comes to the GO Battle League. Feel free to comment down below your thoughts and ideas or if you have any suggestions you would love to see implemented for when the features becomes available in early 2020.
-Adam 'Avrip'
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Craig Strickland Net Worth: 5 Interesting Facts
Craig Strickland passed away December, 28, 2015 leaving behind his wife and heart broken fans around the world. Read on to learn more about the 29 year old singer and his untimely death.
Craig Strickland Passed Away in a Boating Accident
He had went missing on December 27th, 2015 during a series of deadly storms. His body was discovered December 28th, clad in hunting uniforms with his friend, Chase Morland, who's body was also found that same day. The corpses were found in brush as well as his friend's boat which was a 1977 Flat Bottom John Boat, which did NOT have an engine.
Strickland Was Married to Helen Strickland
Strickland leaves behind his beautiful wife, Helen Strickland who most recently won, Miss Arkansas. During her Miss Arkansas crowning, Craig knelt down on one knee and in front of the whole world, proposed to his beautiful girlfriend.
Back road Anthem
Stirkcland began his band "Backroad Anthem" back in 2012. The band began at a local church the five musicians felt an instant connection. The band was a roaring success, during the first six months they opened for musicians such as Toby Keith and Eli Young Band. In 2013, the released their first EP, which included 5 songs and 2 additional tracks.
"BackRoad Anthem" Releases Statement For Craig Strickland
The mourning musicians left a very beautiful message on tasteofcountry.com which said:
"Craig was the most amazing person whose passion for life couldn't be matched. Thankful to know he fought his way from the water to a hill and was lying in the shape of a cross on his back looking up to his Heavenly Father," his band mates wrote to Facebook, along with a Bible quote. "We pray today for God to wrap his arms around Randy, Joanne, Helen, and the family, and to help us through this extremely difficult time. We want to thank every single friend, fan, and family member for your thoughts, prayers, and love. Today he is smiling down on us and we know he will always be with us. He will always be here to help guide us along the way. We love you Craig Strickland and we will forever miss you!"
Craig Strickland's Net Worth
Craig Strickland, 29 is remembered, by family, friends and his wife as a loving and giving soul. It is no doubt that Strickland was a lightning success! Craig Strickland's net worth is unknown. May you rest in peace.


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EU asks Asia to fight fakes
The European Union (EU) has urged Asia to toughen its stance against the multi-billion-dollar racket in counterfeit goods, saying the region had become a key transhipment point for fakes.
Asia accounted for two-thirds of fake goods seized in Europe
Led by counterfeiters in Thailand, Asia accounts for two-thirds of all fake goods confiscated along the borders of EU states, according to fresh statistics gathered by EU's directorate general of taxation and customs, officials said.
"This problem is serious, has created a shadow economy and supersedes existing structures in investment, innovation and trade and stifles creativity," Rainer Osterwalder, spokesman for the European Patent Office, said in the Filipino capital Manila.
"What is worse is it puts consumers' health and security at serious risk," he said, citing a list of fake goods to Europe from Asia ranging from daily necessities like toothbrush, razor blades and detergent to Viagra, palm-tops and vehicle-brake pads.
Osterwalder was speaking after the opening on Tuesday of an international conference in Manila on the role of customs in combating counterfeit and piracy, organised by the Germany-based European Patent Office, the European Commission and the intellectual property office of the Philippines.
"We are here not to lecture Asia on what should be done but to work closely to tackle the (problem) through sharing of expertise and best practices, especially in detecting possible counterfeit cargo," he said.
"What is worse is it puts consumers' health and security at serious risk"
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The one-week conference is attended by more than 80 customs and other experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and EU to update developments on border enforcement and customs operations, said Supapohn Kanwerayotin, spokesman for the EU-ASEAN intellectual property rights cooperation programme.
Transhipment point
Officials from EU's directorate general of taxation and customs told the conference that Thailand was a top transhipment point for Asia's counterfeit goods seized in Europe in 2002.
China remains the biggest manufacturer of such goods in the region, they said.
The EU recently expressed concern over China's enforcement on intellectual property rights, calling it "unacceptable."
China is a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), under which protection of intellectual property rights is secured by provisions of the so-called TRIPS agreement.
Of the total seizures in Europe in 2002, Thailand alone accounted for 43%, according to EU statistics. Substantial fake exports also came from China (15%), Hong Kong (5%) and Malaysia (3%).
The officials also said that Asia accounted for two-thirds of the 87 million counterfeit items seized in Europe last year, a whopping 800% jump from the 10 million items confiscated in 1998.


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Kent connected car infrastructure test aims to bust traffic jams
Tests in A2 and M2 in Kent look to enhance traffic safety and flow
by: Rene Millman
Highways England is running a trial on connected car infrastructure in Kent to help make journeys faster and safer.
The trials, in partnership with the Department for Transport, Kent County Council and Transport for London, have been conducted on the A2 and M2 in Kent.
The trials were part of a week-long demonstration to an international delegation of over 60 people from the automobile world to allow them to understand the technology and see how it could be used in the construction of future vehicle designs.
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Connected cars will swell in numbers by 2020
"Connecting vehicles to each other and the road around can improve journeys, make them safer and give drivers reliable, real-time personalised information; it could also help us manage traffic and respond to incidents," said Jo White, head of intelligent transport systems group at Highways England.
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Highways England's Marie Biddulph receives CESAR Champion Award
By Louise Carney on October 7, 2020 CESAR News
The second CEA CESAR Champion Award for 2020 has been awarded to Marie Biddulph from Highways England.
Earlier this year the Construction Equipment Association (CEA) launched its CESAR Champion initiative to recognise the efforts of officials who use the CESAR technology to identify a stolen piece of machinery. In an effort to encourage more engagement with the CESAR Security Scheme, the award is now being given to any officer who completes 10 checks on agricultural or construction machines or ATVs protected with the security system.
Following on from the announcement of the first winner, Detective Constable Chris Piggott from the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, the CEA is delighted to announce its second winner is Marie Biddulph.
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Marie was delighted to receive the CESAR Champion award from Inspector Sion Hathaway from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) (pictured)
Marie explained "Highways England is proud to support the Cesar Scheme. This initiative enables us to help protect industry against the theft of valuable assets. Working alongside the Police and other partners, we aim to prevent stolen plant and machinery being transported on the strategic road network. This award recognises the positive results that can be achieved by collaborative, partnership working"
Inspector Sion Hathaway presented Marie with her award and said, 'I'm really pleased that Marie's hard work has been recognised. At CMPG we've been working alongside her for several years and her enthusiasm and commitment to making our roads safer are second to none. Marie's support for the Cesar Scheme is typical of the way she throws herself into everything she takes on and the results speak for themselves. We look forward to continuing to work alongside Marie and our other partners in order to continue to make our roads a safer, crime-free environment.'
The CESAR Scheme, which is powered by Datatag technology, is a multi-layered system that includes tamper-evident warning and registration plates, RFID transponders, a microdot identification system comprising between 500 and 1,000 microdots which are scattered around the machine, and forensic DNA. Once fitted, these technologies are almost impossible to remove, and when the machine is registered on Datatag's secure database, these unique details are accessible to the police 24/7, enabling them to identify any machine at the roadside. The CESAR website also has a 'hot button' to instantly report stolen machinery.
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Happy Fourth of July! Hope it is a safe and joyous one for all!
Supposedly our Illinois lawmakers are supposed to vote on a budget today. The House passed one two days ago, but like the three branches of government (remember that in school?) it has to go to the Senate. The governor says he's going to veto if it passes because there are no changes in the budget -- he'd like to see some cuts and term limits. Imagine that, a politician wanting term limits. Anyway, the state needs a budget because so many organization in the state cannot run without the stand funding. Many of our schools may not open on time. Some pensions may be delayed. Road work has totally been shuttered. If you've been on any Illinois roads lately, you know how necessary that work is.
Panhandling has become an issue in our city. I emailed the city manager who ignored my email, at least he didn't respond. That was three weeks ago. Last week I emailed one of the city council members who not only responded, but did so within two hours of my email. I asked about the laws concerning panhandling and he said that there is one against aggressive panhandling, but cities are cautious about passing new ones since a law was passed a couple of years ago in our state capitol and it was taken to court and considered unconstitutional. It has gotten to the point where if you go to our library these folks will knock on the windows of your car and follow you to your car or to the building and they don't give up. Because we have a mental health facility located in our downtown, one never knows if the person you are dealing with is also mentally ill which makes it even more of an issue. Our city is a very giving city, we have a homeless center that provides food and drink, daily showers, laundry facilities, use of the phone, counseling, clothing, medical services, as well as a place to send and receive mail. We have a men's mission, a lady's mission, as well as different organizations that provide food, clothing, and services, and one place, called Good Samaritan that provides a hot lunch every single day of the year and gives snacks besides. The director of the homeless center has said not to give money to the panhandlers because it isn't because they are needing the basics, they will use it for drugs or alcohol.


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The Vanished
The Vanished stars three names who used to keep casting directors' phones busy. Anne Heche, Thomas Jane and Jason Patric all bring a useful intensity to an incredibly wayward kidnap drama written by Peter Facinelli, whose face you'll probably know (from the Twilight films, or Supergirl or Nurse Jackie on TV) even if you don't quite recognise the name.
It's a simple whodunit, in many ways, loaded up with paranoia, and kicking off in a trailer park that's largely deserted, on account of it being Thanksgiving weekend, where married couple Wendy (Heche) and Paul (Jane) rock up in their RV with their daughter for a family camping weekend.
What with the film being called The Vanished (the alternate title is Hour of Lead, drawn from an Emily Dickinson poem), it's no surprise to us but it is to the distraught parents when the young girl disappears. Who's nabbed her?
"Largely deserted" isn't the same as wholly deserted and in a nearby caravan are another couple, Eric (Kristopher Wente) and his hot and outgoing wife Miranda (Aleksei Archer), while lurking on the fringes are the ornery guy who runs the camp and the shifty dogsbody who oddjobs about.
Faites vos jeux, as they say on the roulette tables. Place your bets. With an hour and 35 minutes to go, I'd made my decision, strongly nudged in that direction by Facinelli, whose screenplay reveals fairly early on that younger couple Eric and Miranda cannot have children.
But no, hang on a minute, Facinelli has also thrown into the mix a wounded prisoner on the loose and we've met local cop Sheriff Baker (Patric) and his sidekick Deputy Rakes (played by Facinelli himself), the pair of them exuding a reassuring amount of competence and determination. Too much?
Neighbour Miranda likes a hot tub
Writer Facinelli doesn't leave it there, adding in a further complication when Wendy and Paul do something that the sheriff has expressly warned them not to do, taking matters into their own hands and winding up… in spoiler territory.
The acting is good. It actually needs to be because there are gaping holes in the logic of this script and Facinelli hasn't worked out how to avoid screeds of exposition. Patric is the best of the lot, which is a bit of a shock if you remember all the way back to Speed 2, but he's blossomed as an actor since the leading man roles receded. If you've seen that weird Keyhole film by Guy Maddin, Patric was also incrediby good there.
But back to The Vanished, where psychological plausibility starts to diminish as the plot becomes less moored to reality. If you can stop yourself from asking why Wendy and Paul are doing one dumb thing after another, there's something to admire in the way Facinelli shifts suspicion from one likely kidnap candidate to another and in the way he toys with our sympathies while painting a picture of paranoia run wild and the stupidities that it leads to.
At the level of subject matter I was reminded of Stangerland, the similarly overwrought Australian film starring Nicole Kidman as a mother with a disappeared daughter, while at the level of craft I wondered if Facinelli was trying to make a parody of a Lifetime movie. If so, The Vanished is brilliant and I've got it all wrong.
What it most looks like, though, is a very good story that's been fumbled. The services of a script doctor (not least to take out all the exposition) might have removed a layer of artifice between the storytellers and their audience. Even so, good things lurk here, along with bad and mad people.
The Vanished – Watch it/buy it at Amazon
Hour of Lead (2020) Action, Mystery, Thriller | 115min | September 25, 2020 (United Kingdom) 5.7
Director: Peter FacinelliWriter: Peter FacinelliStars: Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason PatricSummary: Story of a husband and wife that will stop at nothing to find their missing daughter, who disappeared on a family camping trip. When the police don't catch any leads, the duo take over.


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Q: Why does Clojure Spels use quoted symbols, rather than keywords? Why does http://www.lisperati.com/clojure-spels/data.html use quoted symbols, instead of keywords?
(def objects '(whiskey-bottle bucket frog chain))

(def game-map (hash-map
   'living-room '((you are in the living room
                   of a wizards house - there is a wizard
                   snoring loudly on the couch -)
                  (west door garden)
                  (upstairs stairway attic))
   'garden '((you are in a beautiful garden -
              there is a well in front of you -)
             (east door living-room))
   'attic '((you are in the attic of the
             wizards house - there is a giant
             welding torch in the corner -)
            (downstairs stairway living-room))))

(def object-locations (hash-map
                       'whiskey-bottle 'living-room
                       'bucket 'living-room
                       'chain 'garden
                       'frog 'garden))

(def location 'living-room)

(defn describe-location [location game-map]
  (first (location game-map)))

I changed 'living-room to :living-room in all places and it worked.
I'm very new to Clojure - what is the point of 'something, when :something is available to be used?
(I understand what quote does - I would like to know when to use a quoted symbol instead of a keyword.)

A: The original version of Casting SPELs in Lisp was written for Common Lisp. While CL also has keywords (i.e. :foo), the author chose to use quoted lists of symbols instead. This captures the magic of Lisp, and the idea of "code as data" -- a symbol, when evaluated, can represent a value such as a function, but can also represent a value in and of itself, which is one of the cool things about Lisp.
This is just my impression, but when the author translated Casting SPELs for Clojure, I believe he made the decision to still use symbols to represent data (even though in Clojure it would be more idiomatic to use keywords and strings) in order to keep intact the underlying message about Lisp and being able to use code as data and data as code.

A: Using symbols for things in the game makes it much easier to build an interface than if he choose to use keywords.
If you had read it through you see that you control the game by entering a command like (walk west). I think the author though that was way better than (walk :west) and it's probably much simpler to do it with symbols than converting west from the input into the keyword :west without confusing a beginner programmer. In both the original as well as your Clojure version Conrad fixes the interface with macros so you don't quote anything in the finished game and you don't need to use strange colons either.
Casting Spels is a draft/variation of chapter 5 of his book called The Land of LISP. In the book he don't use macros but creates a game read-eval-print loop. With a REPL you get everything in as data and thus don't need to quote anything there either when the game is finished.
The fact that he uses symbols instead of strings is strange until you think that he probably wants the reader to become intimate with symbols early on.
If you want to learn just a little CL I strongly recommend the book since it's even more hilarious than Casting SPELs.
Why don't you try as an exercise to use keywords and try to write the macro or perhaps a REPL so that you can still write walk west and that it does (walk-direction :west) without hadcoding the mapping between west and :west. Would it make the game more complex?


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St. Vincent battles 'triple threat', drug and guns
30 Sep 2009 - 08:05AM
Climate change threatens the tourism industry in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and other island destinations.
TAIPEI, Taiwan: – St. Vincent and the Grenadines' (SVG) ambassador to the United Nations says that in addition to the global economic crisis, the country faces "the triple threat of being globalized, climatized and stigmatized".
Camillo M. Gonsalves told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the World Trade Organization had globalised the multi-island Caribbean nation out of its trade in bananas, which, until very recently was the engine of its economic growth.
The tourism industry was threatened by climate change as intensified hurricanes destroy the coral reefs, damage costal infrastructure and erode beaches, Gonsalves said.
Additionally, he said, the country faces being stigmatized out of its transition into financial services.
He said that the G20, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and other "non-inclusive bodies" , sought to "scapegoat and root out so-called 'tax havens' in a pathetic effort to cast a wide and indiscriminate net of blame across a swath of legitimate and well-regulated countries' development efforts".
These "paternalistic prescriptions" come from countries that are unable to stem corruption and mismanagement within their own borders, he said.
According to Gonsalves, in these nations, "corporations recklessly squander trillions of dollars and a single buccaneer investor can make $50 billion disappear into thin air – an amount greater than the combined annual budget expenditures of the entire CARICOM sub-region".
Illegal guns, like this one found by police in August, are a problem in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
He said that in addition to the "unholy trinity of exogenous assaults" on its developmental prospects, SVG could not ignore the security threats engendered by the illicit trade in firearms and narcotics.
"We in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines find ourselves unfortunately located between the supply and demand of these poisons and weapons, and their deleterious effects rip holes in our cohesive social fabric," he said.
He said "the Caribbean, which produces not one single firearm [nor] one single kilo of cocaine, is awash in drugs and guns, and is now the sub-region with the world's highest per capita murder rate".
He said that the plight of the Caribbean region could not be ignored adding, "the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, which inexplicably ended its presence in our region, has now seen fit to reconsider its decision to cede the Caribbean to drug cartels and murderers".


What could be better than spending your birthday at Coudouliere, in Southern France, on a mistral day? Saturday this spot, which I appreciate more and more, gave me just a nice day.
For this three days of Mistral in France, I left from Italy, on Friday morning, with the idea of heading (for time reasons) to Hyeres (La Madrague). Near my destination, I was greatly amazed by the temperature marked by the car thermometer: 36 Celsius degrees in Hyeres, which I had never seen here before!
However, once arrived at the spot, I found a good wind waiting for me, and some known guys. Nicola was changing sail (from 6.2, he first switched to 5.3, and then to 4.5). The spot was also quite crowded (even by mosquitoes...), as I had never seen before in August (but perhaps the other times I came here on summer time, the strong mistral, and the resulting lower temperature, had kept the swimmers awayfrom the spot).
Anyway, in short, Hyeres gave me a mediocre session this time. The mistral wind has never stabilized for the whole afternoon, probably because of a direction too much from the south west. The couple 4.7 sail and Quad 87 (even if set to Twinzer), did not work properly; a less pretentious couple 5.5 sail and 106 board would have allowed me to enjoy better the session. But at the moment I arrived at the spot, the wind looked pretty good (I measured between 20 and 30 knots).
The day after, Saturday, the mistral predictions were really good, and I decided to spend my birthday at La Coudouliere, at Six Fours Les Plages. It's a spot that I love more and more, and I have to say that it's less difficult than it is told. Saturday, it was a full day, and on the spot, I have seen riders in the water from early morning till sunset. What a show!
Early in the morning, I arrived at the parking lot right next to the spot beach. The parking ban for fireworks, fortunately, was canceled (with the Mistral the fires have been postponed). Parking here is convenient to rig (on the asphalt, without dirtying the sails); it is sheltered from the wind (like the spot beach at the point to entry into the water), and you have the opportunity to rest and warm up (when needed, in winter). The local riders, on average, are kind and helpful. You can see immediately, that here the level of the surfers, and the quality of the equipment are, on average, superior to other spots. In the water, then, the conditions are always funny, even if Saturday, at times (and especially in the morning), the spot has not worked at best, because of wind blowing too much from the West - even SW (in this case, the island of Saint Pierre disturbs the wind). In the afternoon the wind was more beautiful. I have done three sessions here, on saturday.
On my arrival at the spot, on the pier of the port I measured an average wind at 25 knots, with gusts of almost 30, and lulls close to 20.
So I decided to rig the Ezzy Elite 4,7 2018, sheeting hard the downhaul.... At the Coudouliere, with the Fanatic Quad 87 TE 2013, I do not want to run the risk of being underpowered. The Ezzy Elite, so trimmed, has wonderfully done its duty, with a proper loose leech on the toughest gusts, but ensuring power, especially in the moment, sometimes delicate at the Coudouliere, immediately after the beach start, when you must quickly gain the center of the bay, and keep as far as possible from the leeward port breakwater. And also the Fanatic Quad behaved very well (set with the 4 standard fins), going upwind well, turning tight at will, and remaining well in control even in times when the sail was a bit big. The water turned out to be really warm, and the shorty wetsuit would have been comfortable, but I did not want to risk it, and I came out with a 3/2 mm long wetsuit.
Of the two morning sessions, I especially liked the first, for the best wind quality (slightly more rotated from the North-West): easy starting from the beach, spot not already crowded, and possibility to position yourself well upwind, in the best area to catch the waves, near Cap Negre. The waves on Saturday were not at the best, to be honest. Being the Mistral recently entered over the spot (just the day before and not strong), the waves were not high, and they were not very steep, with greater difficulty (at least for me) in reading them. On the other hand, they were, however, very forgiving for waveriding beginners like me. I surfed some of them, although, often, I found myself with too much low speed after the bottom-turn. On one hand, I probably closed the sail too much during the bootm, without this always being necessary; on the other hand, trying to catch the steepest waves close to Cap Negre, I ended up in an area with a wind hole (I need to know the spot better). I envied a lot those then I filmed from the top of Cap Negre, who hold the waves for a long time, and remain always on the lip .... I often happened to end up in the foams area, formed by the waves that have broken, where the bottom is shallow, and where I had to be careful not to put my foot on some sea urchin, having obviously come out barefoot.
During maneuvers, I did some mistakes, perhaps for lack of concentration in the final part of the maneuver, when I often get myself convinced to have it landend and my mind "relaxes".
Instead, I enjoyed myself a lot with jumps, some of which really high (at least for me), as seen in the video. I love to jump on starboard tack, and now my technique is good. It would be time to try the forward (or maybe a back loop?).
I liked a little less the second session of the morning, for a rotation of wind from the South West, which made even more insidious the starting, since I passed not far from the the port breakwater.... And so, as Ezio Papalia (Riwmag) said, better to eat, and keep the energy for the afternoon.
Yes, the great thing about these mistral days is that they never end ..... The most trained riders stay in the water even 4 consecutive hours ... The normal riders like me can only afford to do more sessions, for about one and a half hours each.
So I took time to eat something, and to make videos and photos from the top of Cap Negre. In addition to Ezio, on the spot, I found some other friends, and some Pro, as Adrien Bosson, the very strong French freestyler, who did so well at the recent PWA of Fuerteventura. Adrien, Saturday, remained near the shore to train, showing his skills. Other very good freestylers trained, always near the shore, or with some loops in the bay (one of these, during a very high jump, lost the equipment, risking that it ended up on another rider ....).
Despite the greater crowding, in the afternoon, the spot was still enjoyable, with the wind that, at times, was good (from NW), and slightly stronger, in others more unstable, for transient SW rotations.
I enjoyed another hour and a half. As soon as I entered into the water, I had the impression that the sail could be too big, but in reality, only at times, the wind approached 30 knots, to remain instead on average at 25, and therefore I stayed with the Ezzy 4.7 throughout the session.
The waves slightly grew, especially in the center of the bay (here, just over two meters). Unluckily, those in front of the port breakwater are not so much exploitable for waveriding, because they are the highest, the steepest, and the easiest to be read: but if you drift too much leeward, or you lose the equipment here, we could approach the port breakwaters too dangerously.
After the third session, I quietly put away my equipment, I made order in my car. Before leaving Six Fours coast, I stopped at Le Brusc to admire another breathtaking sunset over the gulf and the islands in the background, with still the last surfers in the water, at the last lights of the day.
It was just a nice birthday, which I will remember for a long time. When you come away from La Coudouliere, you immediately begin to feel nostalgia.
Click here, to see the complete slidegallery of the day.
P.s. Read also the article about the session at Le Brusc, on 26th of August.


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Brock Nelson Added to U.S. Men's National Team
By USA Hockey, 05/12/16, 12:00AM EDT
Nelson will be skating on his third consecutive U.S. Men's National Team.
2016 Tournament
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Forward Brock Nelson (Warroad, Minn./New York Islanders/Univ. of North Dakota) has been added to the 2016 U.S. Men's National Team that is competing at the International Ice Hockey Federation Men's World Championship in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Nelson, who will be skating on his third consecutive U.S. Men's National Team, led the United States to a bronze medal at the 2015 IIHF Men's World Championship in Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic, with a team-leading 10 points and six goals. His six goals tied for third among tournament skaters. Nelson also earned a bronze medal with the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2011 IIHF World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York.
In three seasons with the NHL's New York Islanders, Nelson has collected 108 points, including 60 goals and 48 assists in 235 games. He played in 81 regular-season games in 2015-16 and recorded a career-high 26 goals that ranked second on the Islanders. Nelson added five points (1-4) in 11 playoff games for the Islanders.
The U.S. Men's National Team now has 14 forwards, seven defensemen and three goaltenders.
NOTES: The staff and players of the 2016 U.S. Men's National Team are selected by the U.S. Men's National Team Advisory Group, led by Jim Johannson, assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. Other members include Stan Bowman (Chicago Blackhawks), Dean Lombardi (Los Angeles Kings), David Poile (Nashville Predators), Ray Shero (New Jersey Devils), Dale Tallon (Florida Panthers) and Don Waddell (Carolina Hurricanes). In addition, Chris Drury (New York Rangers) will serve as a member of the management group for the 2016 U.S. Men's National Team ... For more information about the 2016 U.S. Men's National Team, click here ... USA Hockey's international council, chaired by Gavin Regan (Potsdam, N.Y.), has oversight responsibilities for all U.S. national teams.
Team USA Schedule
Time (Local/ET)
May 3 Finland (exhibition) L, 2-3 OT
May 6 Canada L, 1-5
May 7 Belarus W, 6-3
May 9 Finland L, 2-3
May 12 France W, 4-0
May 13 Hungary W, 5-1
May 15 Germany L, 2-3
May 17 Slovakia L, 2-3 OT
May 19 Czech Republic (quarterfinal) W, 2-1 SO
May 21 Canada
Semifinals L, 3-4
May 22 Russia
Bronze Medal Game L, 2-7
Clark Named General Manager of 2023 U.S. Men's National Team
By USA Hockey 09/28/2022, 9:59am EDT
U.S. will play in 2023 IIHF Men's Worlds, May 13-28 in Finland and Latvia
2023 Men's Worlds Schedule Announced
U.S. opens tournament against host Finland on May 12
Team USA Drops Bronze-Medal Game to Czechia
U.S. Finishes World Championship Fourth of 16 Teams
U.S. To Face Czechia For Bronze In Men's Worlds Today
Puck drop is set for 8:20 a.m. ET on NHL Network
U.S. Drops Hard-Fought 4-3 Decision To Finland in Men's World Semis
Team USA to play for bronze tomorrow
Game Day: U.S. To Battle Host Finland In Men's Worlds Semifinal
By USA Hockey 05/27/2022, 7:00pm EDT
USA Hockey Names Roster for November Rivalry Series Games
Group Includes 14 Olympic Medalists
U.S. Women To Host Canada On Nov. 20 In Seattle
Game is part of seven-game Rivalry Series for 2022-23
USA Hockey Announces Multi-Year Partnership with TRUE Hockey
TRUE Hockey to be engaged in broad spectrum of activities
Tag(s): Men's 2016 World Championship


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Cybersecurity Faculty
CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service
Computer Science in Coeur d'Alene
Dual-Credit
CyberForce Competition
Center for Secure and Dependable System (CSDS)
Collaborative Virtual Education (CVE)
Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS)
Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory (RADICL)
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Dean's Newsletter
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Email: csinfo@uidaho.edu
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RADICL is a specialized, and virtually air-gapped computing laboratory.
The goal of the University of Idaho's special purpose lab RADICL (Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory) is to enable hands-on teaching and research in the areas of information assurance, cyber-defense and modern computing platforms and networks.
In RADICL students can run cyber security experiments that they would not be able to do in a traditional lab. RADICL enables teams of students and researchers to create and deploy multiple independent experiments that are quick to set-up and modify. Within the context of these isolated experiments, students and researchers are able to design, implement, examine, explore and develop a detail-oriented hands-on view of modern computing infrastructures. This is due to the unique isolation of the lab made possible by multiple layers of both hardware and software. These layers create separation between the lab and the university network, creating essentially a black box so that no information from the lab can escape it. Students are also able to create a virtual private network infrastructure to simulate a large scale IT environment like those found in businesses and universities. The lab also creates a platform for students to practice for Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions, such as the Pacific Rim competition where the University of Idaho took second place last year. RADICL is operated, programmed and managed by students. RADICL was originally created and implemented in 2003 by the Computer Science Department and Scholarship for Service students under the initiative and direction of Paul W. Oman with funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since that time it's computing and software infrastructure has gone through several improvements. The latest improvements, implemented in 2014, were funded by the State of Idaho under the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission (IGEM). The current configuration of RADICL makes full use of virtualization features built into modern computing environments.
RADICL enables hands-on teaching and research in cybersecurity.


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