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I am indebted to S.S.Perera for much of this compelling story of a rugby club that waxed and waned since 1915.
Rugby was introduced to our country with the first game played in June 1879. Although the Havelock Park was opened in 1901, it was a sandy patch where cricket was played until 1915 when the Havelock Sports Club was formed with Dr. V.R. Schokman as its first president.
The club took to playing rugby in 1920 with Col. E.H.Joseph as its president and J.C.A. Prins as the secretary and first captain. The first Inter-Club match was against Kelani Valley although it was not deemed a tournament match.
The first Havelocks-CR&FC encounter was on 21st July 1923 and by and by, in 1925 the club's pavilion-on-wheels was introduced to the membership. This relic is still in use for presidential banquets and on normal, regular times, as the venue for games of cards, particularly 'bridge'.
In the early years it had to be moved about a few feet at a time to conform to the requirements of tenancy.
Havelocks was admitted in 1948 as a Full Member of the Ceylon Rugby Football Union and the Club's Fred Kellar captained Low-Country Vs Up-Country in the Capper Cup encounter.
The golden years of the club dawned in 1949 when they won the Inter-District Championship and continued unabated when 1950 found them to be the first winners of the newly re-constituted Clifford Cup Touranament.
The team comprised Ian Labrooy as captain, H.E.W. Metzeling, Hugh Aldons, Fred Aldons, Basil Henricus, E.M. Aldons, S.B. Pilapitiya, Alan Drieberg, Robert Sourjah, Vernon Kelly, Lecho Ephraums, Kenneth Gunawardena, Aubrey Raymond, Ian Bartholomeusz and D. Evarts.
The glorious success of 1950 was repeated in 1951 with the protagonists being the same.
Then a drought ensued for a full decade until it was broken in 1961 under the captaincy of Dr. Hubert Aloysius and the rest of the players comprising Maurice Fairweather, Maurice de Silva, Ken de Joodt, Quentin Israel, Rajah Sumanasekera, Nimal Maralanda, Dicky Jayathileka, Brian Jacotine, Frankie David, Y.C. Chang, Gowi Tilekaratne, Richard Abrahams, Conrad Ephraums and Edward Bartholomeusz.
From then on the glory years spun like the wheel of fortune to win the Clifford Cup in handsome regularity. 1963's captain was Rajah Sumanasekera who had been an accomplished boxer and could have had the National Fly-weight title if he had only had time before he went to UK for Air Force training. In 1964 the Cup was won under the captaincy of Dicky Jayathileka.
The 1967 team was captained by Gama Fernando and others in the team were Maxim Flamer-Caldera, Maurice Fairweather, Jeff and Dan Rutnam, Basil Henricus, Glen Vanlangenburg, Japana Jayawardena, Jeyer Rodriguesz, Frankie David, Tyronne Holdenbottle, R. de Silva, Gogi Tilekeratne, Noel Brohier and I. Hameed.
Noel Brohier captained the side that won the honours in 1968 and in 1970 Jeff Rutnam's team tied with Police who were led by Abdul Majeed. Desmond Harridge's Havelocks team beat CR&FC 16-4 in the 1975 Championship Finals. 1976, 1977 and 1978 saw a hat-trick of wins under Thajone Savanghan, Jeff de Jong and Anton Benedict who has been the only player to captain two Champion teams (the other being Police).
After 1978, except for the Championship under hunting flanker Angelo Wickramaratne success has eluded Havelocks and the Club has not had scintillating players other than Michael Jayasekera and Hisham Abdeen worthy of the name, mainly because although some players have learned the rudiments of the game whilst wearing the chocolate and brown jersey, Club loyalty which used to be the badge of honour was tarnished and discarded when lucre called the shots.
The Club's 2ndXV had more accomplished players than those now show-casing their wares in the 1stXV. It used to be a faithful supplier of superb players to play for Low-Country, Barbarians, All-Ceylon against visiting foreign teams.
The first Havelocks player to captain Low-Country in the Capper Cup encounter was Nimal Maralanda in 1964 and Anton Benedict repeated the honour ten years later in 1974. Lecho Ephraums was the first Havelocks player to be in a Representative side against visiting teams when he played for All-Ceylon Vs the British Isles R.U. team in 1950.
1974 – Hastings Boxhill RF Club – Havelocks won 21-8.
Special mention must be made of the 1967 Clifford Cup Champions Havelocks who beat 24-5 an extremely powerful Tea Industry Team comprising Lionel Almeida, Larry Schokman, Selva Kanagasabai, John Burrows, Ralph Wickramaratne, Jayantissa Ratwatte, Tyrrell Mutiah, John Boyd-Moss, Mike de Alwis, Y.C. Chang, Mike Waring, R. Abeysundera, Ken Murray, John Bousefield and Keith Paul.
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The AIM NetworkPoliticsThe distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia
The distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia
Written by: The AIM Network
Cartoon by Ed Stein (Rocky Mountain News)
The following article, by Associate Professor Johan Lidberg, first appeared in Australian Quarterly (Jan-Mar 2019) and is reproduced here with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief and the author.
They say News Corp staff can feel when Rupert Murdoch is in town. The 88-year-old chairman of News Corp has achieved a mythical status in Australia and around the globe. He is the maker and breaker of prime ministers, his latest scalp that of Malcolm Turnbull. His company also embodies the societal problem with media ownership concentration.
This article will not resort to News Corp bashing, because the problem is far greater than just one company. But there are a few useful case studies emanating from News Corp that I'll return to. The wider problem is a structural and regulatory issue where Australian politicians, from both major parties, have yet again failed to play the role of the honest broker between market forces and the public interest.
Australia is not alone in having a concentrated media market. We can see similar patterns emerging both in the US and in some parts of Europe[i]. But Australia stands out as one of the most concentrated media markets in the world and this increasing concentration has been happening for some time[ii]. There is also the question of why it also appears to be speeding up.
We could program our Tardis to revisit various technological disruptions that have led to first media expansion and then concentration, eg. offset printing, the birth of radio followed by TV, but they all pale in comparison with the birth of the internet within which the world wide web (www) exists. The online/digital disruption was, and still is, immense and it caught most legacy media companies off guard.
I saw my first web page in 1992. It is forever burned into my memory. It was the official web page of the US White House. The second page my early technology adopter colleague showed me was a fake US White House page – an ominous sign of what the www would offer in the future.
It took until the mid-to-end 1990s until media companies started to explore the potential of publishing online. Here we find pivotal moment one: most publishers made news available for free. Possibly the dumbest business decision since (a quick internet search later) Western Union passed on the offer of buying the telephone patent in 1876 for US$100,000.
What were the legacy media companies thinking when offering their quite expensively produced content for free? Probably that the www was a bit of passing fad and that in a best-case scenario publishing online would attract audiences to the real stories printed with ink on paper in huge printing presses that rumbled in the basements of newspaper houses.
In Australia, we have our own worst media business decision. Fairfax, publisher of The Age, was a leader in on-line news in the early 2000s. They had a clear edge compared to their competitors and the choice of embracing online. Instead, against the advice of expertise, the Fairfax board decided to stay with and prioritise the hard copy newspaper[iii]. Eric Beecher, then a senior editor at Fairfax, was commissioned by the Fairfax board to look into the future. The future Beecher saw was online and digital. The board disagreed and the rest is history.
For Australia the second pivotal moment arrived in 2006. The then-communications minister, Helen Coonan (Liberal), engineered (heavily lobbied by the big media owners) media regulation ownership reforms that allowed for increased ownership across media platforms. Blogs were the flavour of the day and one of her driving arguments for the reforms was that the internet allowed citizen journalists, for instance via blogs, to publish and contribute to media diversity.
That argument was as flawed then as it is today. Here is the reason: producing independent public interest journalism that meaningfully holds power to account is time consuming and expensive. Citizen journalists have day jobs. Very few of them contribute original reporting to the public sphere. This is not a critique of citizen journalists (CJ), there are some really good things with CJs – like diminishing the publication gate-keeping role of legacy media, but they do not add to media plurality in a meaningful way.
Fast forward to October 2017, and the then Turnbull government re-hashes Coonan's, still flawed, arguments for loosening media ownership restrictions further allowing for ownership across all media platforms by the same company. This takes us to where we are today with the Nine – Fairfax merger (or more correctly takeover, as the Fairfax name will disappear). The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) recently waived through the deal acknowledging that it would lead to less competition. But not significantly less, which means the take-over can go ahead. Disappointingly, the ACCC also fell into the flawed Coonan argument trap displaying a surprising naivety about how the Australian media market works[iv]. One major issue is that the new players, such as Crikey and The New Daily do not have the resources to fight defamation battles or challenge court suppression orders. They do good journalism, but don't have the funding clout needed to be a proper complement to the remaining big four media companies. It is highly likely we'll see more mergers and takeovers after this ruling.
The diagram below illustrates how a handful of owners dominate the Australian media market before the Nine – Fairfax deal.
Source: the Australian Communication and Media Authority. Current as of October 2016.
Multiple studies have clearly shown that Australia has one of the most concentrated media markets in the world most aptly illustrated by the fact that the four major commercial media players, News Corp Australia, Fairfax Media, Seven West Media and APN News and Media accounted for more than 90 per cent of the revenue in the industry in the 2015-16 financial year[i].
The third watershed moment is the rise, rise and rise of the big three: Facebook, Google and Amazon. Not in recorded history have we seen such global dominance of any company in the media sector, or any sector for that matter. You only have to look once at the advertisement revenue charts, the profits of the big three, and how they have spread around the world, to realise that this is where the future big issue lies in terms of concentration.
News Corp shrinks into an ant compared to the three. How on earth did we let this happen? Well, again, our elected representatives were asleep at the wheel or did not understand the potential market power of the three. Culpable too are people like me and my colleagues, we could have been clearer on where things were going and focused our research more on this to sound the alarm.
Consider one chilling example (apart from the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook debacle and Google being part of the global mass surveillance dragnet): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world to make it a better place. So, Facebook is helping African countries to connect to the internet via satellite and wifi technology bypassing more expensive fibre and cable roll outs. Sounds like a win-win. The problem is: the citizens in these countries, to a great extent, access the internet via one interface – Facebook. They get the www according to Zuckerberg.
This is where it gets a bit dystopian. But fear not, there is light at the bottom of the rabbit hole, depending on if we chose the red or the blue pill.
Remember the German political philosopher Jurgen Habermas? His main contribution to public discourse are his thoughts on the public sphere. In a nutshell, Habermas defined the public sphere as part of social life where citizens come together voluntarily (freely) to discuss the issues of the day in order to influence policy and politics. We would probably call it public political participation today. In order for the public sphere to function effectively its participants need to have equal access to quality, unspun information and facts. This is of course a utopian notion even at the best of times (and there are a lot of other critiques of public sphere theory that I cannot fit into this piece), but it is nonetheless a model that allows us to analyse the consequences of media ownership concentration.
Media and journalism play a vital role in supplying the public sphere with the fuel it needs: information that is in the public interest in order for citizens to be self-governing. For this to work events need to be reported as fairly and neutrally as far as possible. Some refer to this as a sort of social contract between media/journalism audiences and the media owners[ii]. You, the publishers, deliver independent and integrity strong stories holding power to account and we, the audience, buy your product and back you up when you are under pressure from the powers we have asked you to hold to account (politics, the corporate sector, indeed all actors in society that exercise power). Media ownership concentration threatens this contract and its delicate balance.
Let us use News Corp as a case study. There have been several studies done on the way Rupert Murdoch influences his editors. One of the most powerful research projects is by David McKnight[iii]. He synthesised Murdoch's influence and access to political leaders in Australia the UK and the US. There are two main takeaways from this study.
Murdoch uses journalism to gain commercial advantages. This is done via hiring editors who thinks like him, meaning that there is no need for explicit instructions regarding content and editorial direction. If an editor loses the ability to think like Murdoch, he/she is replaced. The Murdoch editor clones can then be trusted to run lobbying campaigns like the ones on weaker and weaker media ownership regulations, which is lucrative for News Corp as it allows the company to expand and buy more and more of the Australian and global news media market.
When all News Corp's outlets in multiple countries run the same editorial and news reporting line, their influence is immense. One potent example of this was the lead up to the 2003 Iraq war when all Murdoch media spoke as one in support of the war. When the case for war proved to be null and void as no weapons of mass destructions were found, some media companies, like the New York Times [iv], apologised to the public for its lack of critical reporting. Not so News Corp.
The second example is the ongoing issue of climate change. In spite of repeated and overwhelming global scientific consensus on man-made climate change, the Murdoch media continues to publish misinformation, half-truths and sometime outright lies on the issue. A prominent case in point here is the News Corp coverage of the coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef[v].
The above examples have caused a serious and lasting distortion of the public sphere in Australia. This has lead to the bitter divisions between progressives that desperately want to act on climate change and that overwhelmingly voted for same sex marriage opposed by a small, but very loud, conservative faction supported by News Corp media.
This is exemplified by the attempt to turn Sky News into a version of Fox News in Australia. This is very serious because it means that the sensible political middle is increasingly empty as citizens desert it heading for the partisan trenches. It may sound boring, but the middle is where we make progress via compromises and mutual respect for different points of view.
One of the elements of journalism, according to Kovach and Rosenstiel[vi], is that 'It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise'. At the moment the hyper partisan, mainly opinion-driven, journalism produced by some sections of Australian media is failing this element completely and thus fuelling partisan and at times hate and fear driven politics.
Agreeing to disagree and respecting other points of view, while in good faith striving for workable compromises to form policies is the hallmark of mature liberal democracies. The ideological trench-like political warfare we are currently witnessing in the USA, and to a lesser extent in Australia, is the polar opposite to mature democratic behaviour. Part of the blame for this situation must be squarely put on some media outlets producing journalism that is, in effect, anti-mature democratic behaviour. I keep asking myself – where does all the ill will and hate come from in this partisan ideological war?
This leads to the core consequence of media ownership concentration, the risk is greater for partisan ideological divides to form in society when fuelled by media outlets that have made it part of their business model to publish heavily opinionated content instead of striving for compromise via respectful democratic behaviour.
So, what can and should be done? Well, it ain't rocket science. Most of the solutions have already been suggested to and canvassed by the 2017 Senate Inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism[vii]. Below I cover, in my assessment, the most viable and urgent proposals. In the interest of transparency and disclosure, I co-wrote and edited one of the submissions to the inquiry.
While commercial media is figuring out the future business models for journalism (and it will be a combination of models), public broadcasters is the most important repository for public interest, in-depth journalism. It is therefore crucial that they are properly funded to do their job. Under the current and previous government in Australia the opposite is true.
In spite of former prime minister Tony Abbott promising no cuts to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) or Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) on election eve 2013[viii], two consecutive coalition government have cut $101 million dollars per year in ABC funding since 2014[ix]. In the last 2018-19 federal budget a further $84 million was cut and if you include not renewed targeted grants, such as one for news gathering, the total ABC funding has been lowered by $254 million[x] since 2014 – a 25 per cent cut of the total ABC budget.
This should be restored as soon as possible and funding should again be coupled to the consumer price index. Re-funding the ABC is the most powerful antidote to the distortion of the Australian public sphere as the ABC is bound by its charter to offer national forums for respectful public debate – the opposite to Sky News after 6 pm[xi].
This should not be a difficult political decision to make. Opinion polling unequivocally shows that while public trust in other media outlets is falling, the ABC still enjoys very high trust levels[xii].
The ABC board and the appointment process of board members needs to (as it used to be) be once removed from government and handled by a neutral body. The recent debacles exposing the former chair person Justin Milne as doing the bidding of the government trying to influence editorial decisions and the sacking of journalists, clearly illustrates why this is an urgent change.
Furthermore, the fate of the ABC is not only a matter for Australia. Across the globe there are currently only between 11-15 independent (from government and the corporate sector) properly funded public broadcasters. The total number vary depending on what you classify as proper funding. But if we use the ABC as a benchmark, it is closer to 11 than 15[xiii]. Given these low numbers, if an entity like the ABC is diminished, so is independent in-depth journalism globally.
Government support for public interest media
Following on from the ABC funding flows the argument that if we fund public broadcasters with tax money, why not other media outlets as well? A good question that was thoroughly canvassed in the senate inquiry into the future of public interest journalism. There are already models that could be adapted for Australian purposes.
Several European countries have various forms of tax payer funding for media outlets, predominantly newspapers, to avoid the one-paper town scenarios that is the unfortunate case in several Australian cities. These funding schemes have been around for a long time and are now more needed than ever. So, there is no need to re-invent the wheel – assess the existing models and adapt versions that work in the Australian media landscape[xiv].
Re-regulate media ownership
The market and its inherent competition is, in most cases, a force for good and drives innovation. But in certain areas leaving it to the market is a really bad idea. Heavy public utilities such as power grids, natural gas infrastructure and water infrastructure are some examples. In the case of privatising utilities, the private operators drove each other out of the market until there were one or two operators left – close to the same as was the case when they were state owned. Then they didn't spend enough on maintenance to increase profit margins.
We're seeing a similar scenario in domestic and global media companies. They compete, buy or merge to increase their margins. This is the driver, not delivering public interest journalism. Therefore, if we leave it only to the market, media diversity will keep shrinking until we only have a handful, if that, owners and publishers left. Such is the logic of the media market and therefore ownership needs to be re-regulated to protect public interest journalism long-term.
There are several other sources of income for media companies. We are seeing an increase in subscriptions for publications such as The Guardian (and Guardian Australia), The New York Times (and the NYT Australian edition). This in combination with crowd sourcing funding for major reporting themes could be one potent future business model for journalism.
Another suggestion that is getting increased traction is for Facebook and Google to pay for stories from media outlets that are shared and published on their platforms. How this can be done is unclear. But there is no doubt that publishers need to think carefully before they put all their eggs in one basket and abandon their own publication vehicles to publish only on social media platforms that they do not control. We have already seen what small changes to the Facebook and Google algorithms can do to traffic and advertising revenue[xv].
A role for universities
Submissions to the senate inquiry raised possible roles for universities in countering media concentration. The reasoning went that universities are independent from faction as far as possible and could therefore serve as a base for independent journalists. This would be connected to altruistic funding from the private sector. This funding avenue is not well established in Australia, but it is worth exploring.
Investigative journalists could, for instance, be seconded to journalism programs to both produce stories and collaborate with and teach journalism students. Several submissions to the senate inquiry suggested that altruistic funding of public interest journalism should be tax exempt. That makes a lot of sense. It certainly works in the US.
The other role for universities is already, I am very pleased to report, happening. On October 24, 2018 a new online nationwide publication was launched. The Junction[xvi] is published by the Journalism Education and Research Association Australia and features the best stories from journalism students across Australia. The founding universities are eleven, but we know from the project UniPollWatch (UPW) that covered the 2016 federal election, that many more will join. The UPW 2016 project involved 26 universities, close to 600 students and produced almost 800 stories from most federal electorates. The main value add of UPW is that it covers the electorates down to a very local level in a way that legacy media don't have the resources or will to do. In 2018, The Junction hosted the UPW VIC state election 2018. The adventure continues.
So, there is hope. And here's a thought. Chip in. Subscribe to as many quality media outlets as possible. From little things …
[i] https://theconversation.com/factcheck-is-australias-level-of-media-ownership-concentration-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world-68437
[ii] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/95291/the-elements-of-journalism-by-bill-kovach-and-tom-rosenstiel/9780609504314
[iii] https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/current-affairs-politics/Rupert-Murdoch-David-McKnight-9781742373522
[iv] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
[v] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/21/scientists-resort-to-advertising-to-get-great-barrier-reef-crisis-in-queensland-paper
[vi] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/95291/the-elements-of-journalism-by-bill-kovach-and-tom-rosenstiel/9780609504314
[vii]https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Future_of_Public_Interest_Journalism/PublicInterestJournalism/Submissions
[viii] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/abbott-to-break-abc-no-cuts-promise-20140412-zqty9.html
[ix] https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/05/10/abc-100m-dollars-poorer-since-2013/
[x] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/08/abc-funding-slashed-by-84m-in-budget-to-help-broadcaster-live-within-their-means
[xi] https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-after-dark-a-digital-nuremberg-rally-20180807-p4zvxr.html
[xii] https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/7641-media-net-trust-june-2018-201806260239
[xiii]https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Future_of_Public_Interest_Journalism/PublicInterestJournalism/Submissions
[xiv]https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Future_of_Public_Interest_Journalism/PublicInterestJournalism/Submissions
[xv] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/03/06/facebooks-latest-algorithm-change-here-are-the-news-sites-that-stand-to-lose-the-most/#2edfd81a34ec
[xvi] http://junctionjournalism.com/
Johan Lidberg is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University and the Director of the Master of Journalism.
Australian Quarterly is published by The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS), an independent and non-partisan not-for-profit organisation first founded in 1932.
Terence Mills December 6, 2020 at 7:23 am
Interesting that both Scott Morison and Josh Friedenberg responded to the invitation [read summons] to attend Lachlan Murdoch's Christmas party in Sydney : they also billed the taxpayer for the return flight from Canberra to Sydney using a government aircraft.

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Known by many for his involvement in the political arena, it was in the hockey arena that this builder left his mark on the sports heritage of the region. First enjoying success as an athlete during the 1930s, Mickey represented Canada as a member of the 1936 Canadian Olympic Boxing Team and amassed a record of 210 wins and only 13 losses throughout his career, for which he was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1977.
Arriving in Fort William in 1952, Mickey took over the reins as head coach of the Fort William Junior Canadiens. Behind the bench for 12 seasons from 1952-64, his style of coaching was described as tough yet compassionate, a disciplinarian, who demanded, and received, respect from his players. He also received results with the Junior Canadiens dominating the local and regional junior hockey league, claiming 10 district titles, 2 Thunder Bay Manitoba Hockey League titles and twice competing in the Western Canadian Junior Hockey finals.
Mickey's leadership created some outstanding hockey talent, including former players who eventually made their way into the National Hockey League including Pete Goegan, Eddie Kachur, Lou Marcon, and Stan Baluik. Another of his players, fellow Inductee Bob McCammon, went on to coach in the NHL.
Following his coaching duties he continued to serve as a Scout with the Montreal Canadiens a position he held until 1978. During his 25 years in public office, which ended with his untimely passing in 1991, Mickey strongly supported the existence of sporting opportunities for his fellow citizens.
Inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, September 10th, 1994
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VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday allegedly attacked his estranged former wife using an axe to break doors and threatened to shoot her in a dispute over property.
The enraged VP raided senator Tambudzani Mohadi's Beitbridge home and grabbed three vehicles in full view of about 25 local police officers and his aides.
Mohadi allegedly poked senator Mohadi with a deformed steel bar and threatened to kill her. However, later after fatigue apparently set in, retired to as chair after the hive of activity sapped his energy, according to some police officers who witnessed the incident.
The officer commanding Beitbridge police district chief superintendent Tichaona Nyongo said he was not aware of the alleged attack since he was away in Chivhu.
"I am off, I don't know anything, I am in Chivhu," Nyongo said when contacted for a comment.
The officer-in-charge of Beitbridge police Chief Inspector Kenneth Mushongahande did not respond to calls on his mobile phone.
But, a weary-looking Senator Mohadi confirmed the incident and said she did not know where to report. She did how to get to the police station after the VP left her grounded without a single vehicle.
"I have just spoken to the Dispol [Nyongo] and he expects me to walk to Beitbridge police. My dignity has been heavily battered," she said.
"The police said I must go and report, but they were witnesses to what happened. They saw him commit this crime. He said he is a law unto himself. He was doing this on my defenceless person. I did not react. Police did not stop him.
Mohadi allegedly seized all the three cars at his former wife's home.
"All the cars he took were awarded to me by the court at his instance," Senator Mohadi said.
"After his performance, which took a long time and seeing he was receiving no resistance from his wife he went to the patio where he pulled a bar stool and sat as he watched the vehicles being towed away," said the source.
Some of Mohadi's nephews were present as he went on the rampage while police looked on helplessly.
He moved out of their matrimonial home — 108 Impala Drive in Beitbridge — where his ex-wife lives and was the scene of the drama witnessed by many residents of Beitbridge's low-density suburb from morning when it started.
"We first saw many policemen arrive, then the VP's fleet arrived," said a resident who said they watched what was happening from outside the house.
Earlier Mohadi forcibly closed Malins Transit he jointly operated with some businessmen and directed that all vehicles arriving from South Africa be taken to the old border post where he plans to operate another bonded warehouse.


The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US's military presence in the Asia-Pacific.
In November, US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced plans to expand the US military presence in Australia. The two leaders had agreed to increase bilateral military cooperation and training in this way.
Despite the fact that the US's final military presence in the country is to grow into a 2,500-person Marine Air Ground Task Force, Australia's defense minister Stephen Smith insisted Wednesday morning that the marines and their entourage cannot be qualified as a military base.
''We don't have United States military bases in Australia and we're not proposing to,'' he told ABC radio from Darwin, where he greeted the marines together with the US Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich.
The first group of marines is scheduled to conduct joint military exercises with the Australian Defence Force as well as traveling to some neighboring nations for the same purpose.
The US contingent in Australia is expected to be a rotational force. Its different units will be moving through for short periods of time and will not be based in Australia permanently.
Chinese officials have already questioned whether the US's new military alliances in the region are aimed at encircling China in order to prevent it from becoming a global power.
Barack Obama dismissed these fears when announcing the deployment. Back then, he stressed that it was not an attempt to isolate China, adding that Washington welcomes "a rising, peaceful China."
However, Stephen Smith did mention the rise of China and India in his speech, saying that the world needs to "come to grips" with this fact and respond adequately. He also added that having the US marines in Australia would enhance such efforts.
The tropical port of Darwin of Australia's Northern Territory is located 500 miles from Indonesia. The location is seen as being of the highest strategic importance in view of the escalating disputes over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
New Zealand-based Asia specialist, Tim Beal, says the hospitality may backfire on the nations involved.
One of the fundamental problems here, Beal explains, is that a number of states willingly get themselves caught between the declining United States and rising China. In this way, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand become subordinate to the complicated ties between the two giants.
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Housing Lottery Launches for 692 Units at Rockaway Village in Far Rockaway, Queens
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By: Vanessa Londono 7:00 am on December 23, 2021
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Rockaway Village Apartments, three residential buildings at 1701, 1721, and 1725 Village Lane in Far Rockaway, Queens. Designed by Marvel Architects and developed by Phipps Houses, the structures yield a total 1,693 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 692 units for residents at 30 to 100 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $15,806 to $148,000. Due to system capacity limitations the 550 units advertised do not represent actual unit availability. There are an additional 18 studios, 26 one-bedrooms, 72 two-bedrooms, and 26 three-bedroom units in the 100 percent AMI tier not reflected below.
Amenities include pet-friendly policies, an elevator, a children's playroom, gym, shared laundry room, bike storage lockers, package lockers, recreation room, community center, party room, garage, concierge, on-site resident manager, and numerous outdoor spaces include a children's playground and landscaped plaza. Units come equipped with name-brand appliances and finishes, air conditioning, dishwashers, smart controls for heating and cooling, and hardwood floors.
At 30 percent of the AMI, there are 21 units with a monthly rent ranging from $388 to $662 for incomes ranging from $15,806 to $44,400. At 40 percent of the AMI, there are 54 units with a monthly rent ranging from $558 to $957 for incomes ranging from $21,635 to $59,200. At 50 percent of the AMI, there are 140 units with a monthly rent ranging from $729 to $1,253 for incomes ranging from $27,498 to $74,000. At 60 percent of the AMI, there are 143 units with a monthly rent ranging from $900 to $1,549 for incomes ranging from $33,360 to $88,800. At 80 percent of the AMI, there are 106 units with a monthly rent ranging from $1,075 to $1,885 for incomes ranging from $39,360 to $118,400. At 100 percent of the AMI, there are 86 units with a monthly rent ranging from $1,040 to $1,824 for incomes ranging from $38,160 to $148,000.
Prospective renters must meet income and household size requirements to apply for these apartments. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than February 21, 2022.
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26 Comments on "Housing Lottery Launches for 692 Units at Rockaway Village in Far Rockaway, Queens"
JQ LLC | December 23, 2021 at 11:53 am | Reply
60% AMI is 900? I remember not long ago when that would be around 700-750. The market is ludicrously overvalued especially since there's still a pandemi. And 550 is still incremental considering the average salary around Far Rock is about 40 Grand.
Oh and when you do these stories please stress how many market rate apartments there are. Because the ratio is way higher for them.
Who the hell lives in that room in that last pic? Donnie Darko?
NFA | December 23, 2021 at 9:25 pm | Reply
Thought the same thing LOL. cellar door….
Marcela M. Caceres | December 23, 2021 at 1:14 pm | Reply
Hello, I apply for 2 bedroom. For my sister and I..Please help me. Thanks.
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I need Apto at one or two rooms
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I would love to be able to get an apartment in one of those buildings in FarRockaway 2 bedroom 2 bath.
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How do you apply?
RG | December 23, 2021 at 7:22 pm | Reply
If that diagram of people is what will represent the area then bravo . It will be an integrated development of all different nationalities, races and religions. Except I highly doubt that will happen As either it will be completely gentrified or completely low income . The pictures to me are a fantasy but I can be proven wrong .
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I have been residing at my current address in far rockaway for 23 years,i moved here from bklyn in 1977;i resided at my former address for 20 years im a good tenant and need a new space.
ARTHUR 8x | December 24, 2021 at 1:10 am | Reply
I am trying hard to get into one of these new complexes in Far Rockaway. I pray that I am picked.
Patricia Green | December 24, 2021 at 1:57 am | Reply
I would like to have a application
chestina johnson williams | December 24, 2021 at 3:29 am | Reply
I would like an application. Thank you
Sylvia C Gentles | December 24, 2021 at 1:00 pm | Reply
Can do get a application for one of these apartments
Cynthia | December 24, 2021 at 1:23 pm | Reply
I live very near ,nice apartment ,I want an application
APRIL CHAPPLE | December 24, 2021 at 7:58 pm | Reply
I live right down the block from here and I'm wondering what they plan to do about all the mentally ill and homeless people wandering around right across the street from these beautiful buildings? Like all those new benches have already become a welcomed hang out for the drug addicts, drunks and mentally ill…Mott ave is a harsh place and no amount of glamour will be able to cover that up
Catherine | December 24, 2021 at 9:29 pm | Reply
I would love to be in the lottery .lost husband .just me my 14 year old and my small yorkie
Janet Musgrove | December 26, 2021 at 12:24 am | Reply
Janet Musgrove I need a application for one bed room
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Looking for a two are a three bedrooms apartment
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how can i get application form to apply.
Kathlina D Robinson | March 12, 2022 at 3:56 am | Reply
I tried for 3 hour online and couldnt get application submitted. Please send an application for a one bedroom to, Kathlina Robinson, 2445 Beach Chanel Dr, Queens New York, 11691…….Thanks
Ed O'Connor | September 11, 2022 at 6:57 pm | Reply
Looking for studio or one bedroom. Elderly man.
Developers Secure $95.7M for Beach Green Dunes III at 331 Beach 35th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens
Affordable Housing Development Breaks Ground at 13-12 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens
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Beach 21 Affordable Housing Project Completes Construction at 10-47 Beach 21st Street in Far Rockaway, Queens


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The Climax Chicago Blues Band (1968–1970), Climax Chicago (1971-1972)
Stafford, England
Blues rock, soft rock
Harvest/EMI
Sire/Warner Bros. Records
Major League Productions
George Glover
Roy Adams
Lester Hunt
Neil Simpson
Chris Aldridge
Graham Dee
Pete Haycock
Derek Holt
George Newsome
Arthur Wood
Anton Farmer
Peter Filleul
John Cuffley
Nicky Hopkins
Dave Marquee
Henry Spinetti
John "Rhino" Edwards
Jeff Rich
Roger Inniss
Johnny Pugh
The Climax Blues Band (originally known as The Climax Chicago Blues Band) is a British blues rock band. The band was formed in Stafford, England, in 1967 by vocalist and harmonica player Colin Cooper (1939–2008), guitarist and vocalist Pete Haycock (1951–2013), guitarist Derek Holt (b. 1949), bassist and keyboardist Richard Jones (b. 1949), drummer George Newsome (b. 1947), and keyboardist Arthur Wood (1929–2005).[1]
2 Lineups
2.1 Timeline
3.2 Albums (guest appearance)
5 Other sources
In 1972 the group shortened its name to the Climax Blues Band. The band has released at least 18 albums and had a Top 10 hit in the UK with "Couldn't Get It Right".[2] That song and "I Love You" were also hits in the United States; "Couldn't Get It Right" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977, and "I Love You" peaked at No. 12 in 1981.[3]
Jones left the group in 1969 and Holt began playing bass. The band switched labels to Harvest Records in 1970 and subsequent records had a more rock-oriented feel.[4] John Cuffley replaced Newsome in 1971.
Albums issued in the 1970s include FM/Live (1973), a double set recorded at a concert in New York,[5] and the studio albums Stamp Album (1975) and Gold Plated (1976), featuring the single "Couldn't Get It Right". In the 1970s, the band's concerts in the US were attended by up to 20,000 people.[6] By 1981 the band was moving towards a pop-rock sound.[6] Holt and Cuffley left in 1983.
A previously unknown recording of a live performance was released as Climax Blues Band/World Tour 1976 by the Major League Productions (MLP) record label.
The album Sample and Hold was recorded for Virgin Records in 1983 by Haycock, Cooper, and Glover, with a rhythm section composed of the session musicians Dave Marquee and Henry Spinetti.[7] A follow-up album was in the works, but Cooper bowed out, citing personal reasons. Haycock went on to record several solo projects, the first of which was the album Total Climax, with his band, Pete Haycock's Climax; this band toured extensively in Europe, including Communist East Germany, and conducted a well-received tour in Australia. After that, Haycock was asked by his former Climax Blues Band manager, Miles Copeland, to record an instrumental album, Guitar and Son, and the live album Night of the Guitars (from the tour of the same name) for the I.R.S. No Speak label.[8] After that tour, Haycock teamed up with the guitarist Steve Hunter and former Climax Blues bandmate Derek Holt to record the album H Factor. He was later recruited by Bev Bevan to become a member of Electric Light Orchestra Part II and recorded and toured with that group from 1990 onwards. He also started his film score career at this time, playing the lead on Hans Zimmer's score to Thelma and Louise. He also performed on the Night of the Guitars tours, which included Holt on bass, keyboards and occasional vocals.
Holt wrote "I Love You," one of the Climax Blues Band's biggest hits. It is included on the Climax Blues Band double album, 25 Years 1968–1993, released by the German label Repertoire in 1993. "I Love You" still gets over 20,000 radio hits a year in the US and was used in Finn Taylor's 2002 film Cherish and in Kevin Smith's 2008 film Zach and Miri make a Porno. In 1983 Holt joined with drummer Brendan Day and Nektar guitarist Roye Albrighton, who recorded one self-titled album for the A&M label.
In 1985, Cooper and Glover recruited guitarist Lester Hunt, drummer Roy Adams, and original member Derek Holt to record the Climax Blues Band album Drastic Steps, and this line-up toured in support of the album in the UK, Europe and America.[9][6] The new line-up soon became established with Cooper, Glover, Hunt, Adams and Neil Simpson in the early 1990s, releasing the live album Blues from the Attic in 1993 and Big Blues in 2004.[1][10]
Cooper died of cancer, aged 69, in July 2008. He is survived by his wife and two children. [6][11] He wanted the band to continue, as the other musicians had all been long serving (Glover since 1980, Adams and Hunt since 1985, and Simpson since 1991). Cooper was replaced by singer and saxophone and harmonica player Johnny Pugh, who retired in 2012, and was replaced in turn by vocalist Graham Dee and saxophone player Chris Aldridge. This lineup continues to tour.[12]
Lineups[edit]
Colin Cooper – vocals, saxophone, harmonica, guitar
Pete Haycock – guitar, vocals, bass
Derek Holt – guitar, bass, keyboards
Richard Jones – bass, keyboards
George Newsome – drums
Arthur Wood – keyboards
Derek Holt – bass, guitar, keyboards
Anton Farmer – keyboards
Peter Filleul – keyboards
Derek Holt – bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals
John Cuffley – drums
Richard Jones – keyboards, bass
Nicky Hopkins – keyboards
George Glover – keyboards, backing vocals
Dave Marquee – bass
Henry Spinetti – drums
John "Rhino" Edwards – bass
Jeff Rich – drums
Roy Adams – drums
Lester Hunt – guitar, backing vocals
Roger Inniss – bass
Derek Holt – bass
Neil Simpson – bass
Johnny Pugh – vocals, saxophone, harmonica
Graham Dee – vocals
Chris Aldridge - saxophone
Timeline[edit]
Albums[edit]
The Climax Chicago Blues Band (1969)
Plays On (1969) - U.S. No. 197 (1 week)
A Lot of Bottle (1970)
Tightly Knit (1971)
Rich Man (1972) - U.S. No. 150 (10 weeks)
FM/Live (1973) - U.S. No. 107 (30 weeks)
Sense of Direction (1974) - U.S. No. 37 (29 weeks)
Stamp Album (1975) - U.S. No. 69 (11 weeks)
Gold Plated (1976) - U.S. No. 27 (44 weeks), UK No. 56[2] (1 week)
Shine On (1978) - U.S. No. 71 (11 weeks)
Real to Reel (1979) - U.S. No. 170 (6 weeks)
Flying the Flag (1980) - U.S. No. 75 (16 weeks)
Lucky for Some (1981)
Sample and Hold (1983)
Drastic Steps (1988)
Blues from the Attic (1993)
25 Years 1968–1993 (1994)
Big Blues (2004)
Climax Blues Band World Tour 1976 (2011, Major League Productions)
Security Alert: The Live Bootleg (2014)
Tempus Fugit 4 track EP: Album Sampler (2018)
Hands of Time (2019)
Albums (guest appearance)[edit]
Three's a Crowd, Tarney/Spencer Band (1978)
Singles[edit]
CAN AC
1969 "Like Uncle Charlie" — — — — —
1971 "Cubano Chant" — — — — —
"Reap What I've Sowed" — — — — —
"Towards the Sun" — — — — —
1972 "Mole on the Dole" — — — — —
1973 "Shake Your Love" — — — — —
1974 "Sense of Direction" — — — — —
1975 "Using the Power" — — 110 — —
1976 "Couldn't Get It Right" 8 38 3 43 10
1978 "Makin' Love" — — 91 — —
"Mistress Moonshine" — — — — —
1979 "Children of the Night Time" — — — — —
1980 "I Love You" 14 30 12 20 —
"Gotta Have More Love" — — 47 — —
1981 "Darlin'" — — — — —
1982 "Friends in High Places" — — — — —
1983 "Listen to the Night" — — — — —
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^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records. p. 110. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
^ "Allmusic ((( Climax Blues Band > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))".
^ "NME biography". NME. Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
^ Pierre Perrone (22 November 2013). "Pete Haycock: Guitarist with the Climax Blues Band who went on to write film music for John Badham and Franc Roddam". The Independent. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ a b c d "Obituary by Garth Cartwright". The Guardian. London. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ "Vinyl LP Record Collector's Guide: Night of the Guitar with Steve Howe, Leslie West, Robbie Krieger, Randy California, Steve Hunter, Pete Haycock, Andy Powell, Ted Turner, Alvin Lee 12" Maxi-Single / LP Vinyl". Lp-covers.blogspot.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
^ "Drastic Steps - Climax Blues Band". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
^ "Official website biography". Climaxbluesband.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
^ "Colin Cooper obituary". The Times. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
^ Corser, John. "New album and tour for Climax Blues Band". www.expressandstar.com. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
^ "Allmusic ((( Climax Blues Band > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))".
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Nick Finnis; Rob Logan, eds. (1975). The New Musical Express Book of Rock. Star Books. ISBN 0-352-30074-4.
Climax Blues Band official website
Biography and discography at Allmusic
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British soft rock music groups
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Sire Records artists
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Virgin Records artists
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By Ryan Weeks on Thursday 7 June 2018
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The relentless Revolut has revealed that almost half its customers are UK-based.
Seldom does a week go by without a Revolut announcement. Today, the company reveals that it is working on a new commission-free trading tool, allowing users to invest in UK and US-listed firms, as well ETFs and options.
Revolut is taking aim at traditional brokerages, which charge as much as £5.00 per trade. It likens its attempt to make trading more affordable and accessible to the approach it has taken to banking and crypto-currency.
"To put it bluntly, we are going to cause the same disruption in investments as we have done in banking," said Revolut founder and CEO Nikolay Storonsky, in a statement. "Brokers are charging people as much as £5.00 per trade and the user interfaces are typically clunky, slow and confusing for consumers. The pain points are clear for us and the room for improvement is massive."
In tandem to the launch, the banking challenger has passed 2 million customers in Europe. This represents more than 300 per cent growth in the past 12 months, which Revolut claims makes it the fastest-growing fintech firm in Europe. The firm is now seeing a monthly transaction volume of $2b, with customers making over 100 million individual transactions.
We now have some notion of where the app's customers are concentrated. Approximately 900,000 of its customers are based in the UK, with France and Poland emerging as its second and third largest markets respectively.
But Revolut's ambitions are very much global, as our recent interview with early-employee Rishi Stocker showed. In the next few months, the firm is expected to launch in the US, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
Anna Irrera of Reuters revealed a few days ago that the company will apply for a US banking licence to support its expansion plans. It is already in the process of seeking a European banking licence.
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If you use COLUMNS, you get the answer as a list.
DATASET: Select exactly one dataset.
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DATASET_COLUMN: Select a column among the specified dataset. This type needs you to specify a datasetParamName to know from which parameter you want to list the dataset columns. See example below.
FOLDER: Select a DSS managed folder.
MODEL: Select a DSS saved model.
API_SERVICE: Select an API service.
API_SERVICE_VERSION: Select a version package among the specified API service. This type needs you to specify an apiServiceParamName to know from which parameter you want to list the API service versions. See example below.
VISUAL_ANALYSIS: Select a visual analysis.
Selects allow you to propose multiple choices, and have the user select one (and only one). Each choice has an identifier and a user-visible long string.
Just like each dataset and recipe can accept params, so can a plugin. Plugin-level configuration allows you to have a centralized configuration that is shared by all datasets and all recipes instances of this plugin.
To add settings to a plugin, edit the plugin.json file and add a "params" array in the JSON top-level object. The structure of this params array is similar to the one of datasets and recipes.
Datasets receive the plugin config (as a Python dict) in the constructor of their connector class. See the documentation of the Connector class or the automatically generated sample for more information.


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This past weekend we were off camping up in northern Maine, then we were back for the fourth and a boat parade and afternoon of sailing. Now it's back to the office, housework, and garden work. It's amazing how quickly things can grow, even when you're only gone a few days. When I left the peonies were in full bloom.
When I came back they were all gone. That's OK though, peony season is glorious, even if it is very short. We now move on to hydrangeas, peony poppies, and a flush of other blooms. Even though perennials offer a short season of bloom, they can be staggered to provide color and interest throughout the summer. As I drive around I'm always noticing things blooming in other gardens that I might be able to incorporate into my own.
What's blooming in your garden this week?
Susy, just about every thing in the garden is in bloom. Potatoes, cucumbers, squash, green beans, tomatoes, and green peppers. The harvesting is in the near future.
But I think you were asking what flowers were blooming in the garden. All my flowers are done except the living poor man's patio which always has impatiens hanging baskets in bloom.
Have a great garden blooming day.
Here in our Dallas, TX, suburb, we have a number of flowers blooming. But, this simple heart of mine is always delighted with the black-eyed-susan that are getting underway about now. Another bloom of note is that there has been at least one purple iris blooming every couple weeks. Very strange to be blooming so long after Easter…………..but it always makes me think of my mother-in-law who gave them to me long ago.


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Q: Cannot catch ClassCastException in scala I have some problem with catching a ClassCastException.
It happens in last case of the pattern matching of the retrieve function, the exception isn't cought.
How can I fix this?
  abstract class Property

  object EmptyProperty extends Property

  class PropertyCompanion[T]

  object Type extends PropertyCompanion[Type]
  case class Type extends Property

  object Name extends PropertyCompanion[Name]
  case class Name extends Property

  abstract class Entity {
    protected val properties: Map[PropertyCompanion[_], Property]
    def retrieve[T](key: PropertyCompanion[T]) =
      properties.get(key) match {
        case Some(x) => x match {
          case EmptyProperty => throw new Exception("empty property")
          case _ => {
            try {
              x.asInstanceOf[T]
            } catch {
              case e => throw new Exception("fubar")
            }
          }
        }
        case None => throw new Exception("not found")
      }
  }

  case class Book(protected val properties: Map[PropertyCompanion[_], Property]) extends Entity {
    def getType = retrieve(Type)
    def getName = retrieve(Name)
  }

  object Test extends App {

    val book = Book(Map(Type -> Type(), Name -> Type()))
    val name = book.getName
  }

A: You can't catch the Exception, because you can't cast to T. The JVM does not know T at runtime, so you have to trick it a bit ;-). Pass in an implicit m: CLassManifest[T] to your method and use m.erasure.cast(x). Your could would look like this:
abstract class Property

object EmptyProperty extends Property

class PropertyCompanion[T]

object Type extends PropertyCompanion[Type]
case class Type extends Property

object Name extends PropertyCompanion[Name]
case class Name extends Property

abstract class Entity {
  protected val properties: Map[PropertyCompanion[_], Property]
  def retrieve[T](key: PropertyCompanion[T])(implicit m: ClassManifest[T]) =
    properties.get(key) match {
      case Some(x) => x match {
        case EmptyProperty => throw new Exception("empty property")
        case _ => {
          try {
            m.erasure.cast(x).asInstanceOf[T]
          } catch {
            case e => throw new Exception("fubar")
          }
        }
      }
      case None => throw new Exception("not found")
    }
}

case class Book(protected val properties: Map[PropertyCompanion[_], Property]) extends Entity {
  def getType = retrieve(Type)
  def getName = retrieve(Name)
}

object Test extends App {

  val book = Book(Map(Type -> Type(), Name -> Type()))
  val name = book.getName
}

edit: added a cast to T to get the correct return type


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Image Search: Biased by Language. The Fix? Use Humans!
Houston, we (male, female, uncertain) have a problem. Bias is baked into some image analysis and just about every other type of smart software.
The first step in solving a problem is to acknowledge that a problem exists. The second step is more difficult.
I read "The Reason Why Most of the Images That Show Up When You Search for Doctor Are White Men." The headline identifies the problem. However, what does one do about biases rooted in human utterance.
My initial thought was to eliminate human utterances. No fancy dancing required. Just let algorithms do what algorithms do. I realized that although this approach has a certain logical completeness, implementation may meet with a bit of resistance.
Okay, right coast thinking. I feel more comfortable.
What does the write up present as wizard Aylin Caliskan's view of the problem? A post doctoral researcher seems to be a solid choice for a source. I assume the wizard is a human, so perhaps he, she, it is biased? Hmmm.
I highlighted in true blue several passages from the write up / interview with he, she, it. Let's look at three statements, shall we?
when you directly translate, and "nurse" is "she," that's not accurate. It should be "he or she or it" is a nurse. We see that it's making a biased decision—it's a very simple example of machine translation, but given that these models are incorporated on the web or any application that makes use of textual data, it's the foundation of most of these applications. If you search for "doctor" and look at the images, you'll see that most of them are male. You won't see an equal male and female distribution.
If accurate, this observation means that the "fix" is going to be difficult. Moving from a language without gender identification to a language with gender identification requires changing the target language. Easy for software. Tougher for a human. If the language and its associations are anchored in the brain of a target language speaker, change may be, how shall I say it, a trifle difficult. My fix looks pretty good at this point.
Yes, anything that text touches. Images and videos are labeled to they can be used on the web. The labels are in text, and it has been shown that those labels have been biased.
…you cannot directly remove the bias from the dataset or model because it's giving a very accurate representation of the world, and that's why we need a specialist to deal with this at the application level.
Notice that my solution is to eliminate humans entirely. Why? The pipe dream of humans doing indexing won't fly due to [a] time, [b] cost, [c] the massive flows of data to index. Forget the mother of all bombs.
Think about the mother of all indexing backlogs. The gap would make the Modern Language Association's "gaps" look like weekend catch up party. Is this a job for the operating system for machine intelligence?


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"This Land Is Your Land," one of the best-loved folk songs in America, is richly illustrated here, making it a vibrant musical book that's sure to please readers.
Woody Guthrie debuted this song in 1940 in an effort to focus on the suffering of the people who lived during the Great Depression of the previous decade. The tune is a coast-to-coast celebration of the beauty and diversity of America's land and people, and that teaches that all should have equal access to that land. The lyrics, which serve as the text of the book, are accompanied by brilliant folk art illustrations that capture our country's people and its land, from its deserts to its bustling cities.

To help readers identify the places in the illustrations, many are labeled. Readers are accompanied by a clever rendering of guitar-strumming Woody, who takes them on an amazing and fulfilling journey. Included is a musical arrangement of the tune, as well as a brief biographical scrapbook that highlights Woody Guthrie's life and career, and discusses the history of the song. A valuable and unique way to talk about music, geography, and history.

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Visalia civic leader dies at 92
Eric Woomer
ewoomer@visaliatimesdelta.com
John Durell moved seven times in a 10-year period until the small-town charm of Visalia caught his eye in 1964.
He held several retail jobs including managing the auto center for JC Penny, selling cars and later insurance. But, in 1966, after many years in the retail sector, he took over a different side of the retail world — he bought the Merry-Go-Round children's clothing store in downtown Visalia.
Durell settled into his new role behind the scenes, while his wife, Dottie, was the face of the downtown store for more than 26 years. Customers from across the Valley would shop at the store, which was known for its tabletop merry-go-round that captured the attention of children as their parents shopped.
"My mother could sell ice to an Eskimo and my dad was the numbers guy. That was their life and they loved it," said Barbara Durell, John's daughter. "Their world was the store and the ball park."
The Durell family has held season tickets to the Visalia Oaks and later the Rawhide since 1964. Two tickets will continue to be purchased in John Durell's name, his family said. They hold seats directly behind home plate.
John Durell died on May 28 after a battle with Alzheimer's. His wife Dottie died three years before him.
Durell was described as a civic leader with strong ties to the community. He was a member of the Sequoia Lions Club for nearly 43 years, the Downtown Visalians and accumulated more than 10,000 volunteer hours with Visalia Police Department's Volunteer's in Police Service. He was also a member of the Sheriff Department's Aero Squadron.
"I remember John well, he was a member of the Visalia Police Department family who dedicated a lot to our organization and the community," said Visalia Capt. Rick Haskill.
Durell was also an integral part of the Citizens' Transportation Committee, which helped start the Visalia City Coach and expand bus routes in Visalia throughout the 1970s. He earned his Associate of Arts degree from College of the Sequoias at the age of 70, having taken courses on and off for more than 20 years.
John's son, Robert Durell, said his father took pride in giving back to the community where he decided to raise his two sons and daughter. He was named Grand Marshal of the 2003 Candy Cane Parade.
A celebration of life is planned for 11 a.m. Aug. 17 at Recreation Park's Hall of Fame Club at Rawhide. Those who knew him are encouraged to attend.
The family asks in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada, 1060 La Avenida Street, Mountain View, Calif., 94043


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Joe George Micallef
Joe George Micallef, was born at Rabat, Malta on 20 December, 1946. He is a singer, musician and composer.
Has entered the local music scene for over forty years. Today still sing a prominent hotel as it did throughout his life. Known for songs like il-Kuġin Ġiljan, Malta is Nice u Agħtini Jdejk,
Joe started singing career in Australia where he emigrated at a young age. He returned back to Malta and quickly found a job that is so for his heart and he was very happy.
Joe George Micallef is also married to Diane an english women, and was father of four siblings protagonist in music scene. First known as The Mics and now even Firelight quickly found a job that is so for his heart and he was very happy. Michelle brothers, Wayne Micallef, Richard Edwards and Daniel Micallef found there inspiration and support to their career so moved by their father Joe George.
During 2015 he return also to the festivals, when he enter in the festival of L-Għanja tal-Poplu 2015 and on 21 March, 2015 he was with the sixteen finalist with the song Illum Jien Pensjonant lyrics by Alfred C. Sant and music by himself.
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Friend of the Seward library are planning a Used Book Sale! We are excited, we hope you are too! Have those books piling up as the rain falls? Get 'em ready to come to the library! Bag 'em, box 'em, get 'em out of the way! Recycle those books and help our library at the same time. It's easy.


The Fourth of July is one of my FAVORITE holidays and I thought it would be so fun to have a little link up on all our blogs and of course Instagram sharing pictures of our littles in their fun All-American gear! And I could not be happier to have all of these awesome mama bloggers hosting with me!
I've been doing some late night crafting and I wanted to show you the card I made for BTR for Father's Day using my Cricut Explore. It was a free cut in Cricut Design Space and I thought it was so cute! I think double sided card stock might have made it pop a little more.
Monogrammed FitBit for the win!
Jude and I went to story time in the park on Wednesday and then played on the playground for a bit after. I just love this shot of him in the swing.
I shared this on Instagram earlier this week, but wanted to share here also. Beauty Brands is having their liter sale and you better believe I stocked up on shampoo and conditioner! I also grabbed this hair mask since I was almost out of the one I was currently using. Has anyone ever used this brand before?
I haven't gone to yoga or barre in a while so I bought a big class package from my studio because they were having a summer special. I have 20 classes I have to go to before the end of August! I went to my first yoga class yesterday and I really forgot how much I love it.
Okay friends, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Don't forget to come back next week for the STAR SPANGLED KIDS party! I can't wait to see all of your littles!


Follow these 3 Important Tips on how you can maximize your attendance in Job Fairs.
Don't forget to bring a big smile and a positive attitude. We wish you well with your Job Fair attendance!
Scroll down, and click on "Job Fair Schedules" and you should be directed to this page, http://philjobnet.gov.ph/jobfair-schedule where you can see all available DOLE sponsored Job Fairs in the country.
Or you can click on the date with the orange highlight and you will be able to see the available Job Fairs. Choose the one that is nearest to you.
Write your resume, and print out several copies to make sure that you are able to submit your resume to companies in the event.
Ready your black ball pen, bring 2 or 3 just in case.
Bring a notepad or something to write with, it may come handy when you need to jot down names and phone numbers.
Prepare what you need to wear for the event the day before, It needs to be suited for the event.Business casual or business attire is the way to go.
Read books or articles about the industry you are planning to work for.
A healthy mindset is key to landing a job. You should always be positive when applying for a job, especially when going to a job fair.
Come in early, it's always a good idea to be at the venue before the rest of the job-hunting crowd gets there, so you get to secure your spot. Remember that there are possibly a thousand other people like you who is also eyeing the dream job that you want. Once the requirement of the company is met they (the company) may not be able to accommodate your application. So be there a bit earlier than usual.
Most Job Fairs would require you to register. Carefully fill out the form and make sure that your contact details are correct, especially your mobile number and email.
When you enter a venue you will be greeted by representatives of the companies at the gate, do not jump right in, simply take note of the name of the company and what industry they are in. You may ask politely what industry they are in and the job opening that they have for job seekers like you and they will surely tell you what's available. This is where your ball pen and notepad will come in handy. Visit each booth briefly and ask what jobs are available or you can simply look at the directory of the Job Fair, and jot down the companies that interest you. Taking this quick tour of the area will give you a better perspective of which company to apply for first.
Don't fall into the trap of the easy job application, weigh your options first before investing time and energy to a specific company, you might miss out on a job opportunity that's a perfect fit for you. So scout the companies first, and then decide which ones to apply for.
Be yourself, enjoy the job fair! Be at your best!