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using NMF.Collections.Generic;
using NMF.Collections.ObjectModel;
using NMF.Expressions;
using NMF.Expressions.Linq;
using NMF.Models;
using NMF.Models.Collections;
using NMF.Models.Expressions;
using NMF.Models.Meta;
using NMF.Models.Repository;
using NMF.Serialization;
using NMF.Utilities;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using TTC2017.SmartGrids.CIM.IEC61970.Core;
using TTC2017.SmartGrids.CIM.IEC61970.StateVariables;

namespace TTC2017.SmartGrids.CIM.IEC61970.Topology
{

    /// <summary>
    /// The public interface for TopologicalNode
    /// </summary>
    [DefaultImplementationTypeAttribute(typeof(TopologicalNode))]
    [XmlDefaultImplementationTypeAttribute(typeof(TopologicalNode))]
    public interface ITopologicalNode : IModelElement, IIdentifiedObject
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// The ReportingGroup property
        /// </summary>
        IReportingGroup ReportingGroup
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The TopologicalIsland property
        /// </summary>
        ITopologicalIsland TopologicalIsland
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The SvInjection property
        /// </summary>
        ISvInjection SvInjection
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The Terminal property
        /// </summary>
        IOrderedSetExpression<ITerminal> Terminal
        {
            get;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The ConnectivityNodeContainer property
        /// </summary>
        IConnectivityNodeContainer ConnectivityNodeContainer
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The ConnectivityNodes property
        /// </summary>
        IOrderedSetExpression<IConnectivityNode> ConnectivityNodes
        {
            get;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The BaseVoltage property
        /// </summary>
        IBaseVoltage BaseVoltage
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The SvVoltage property
        /// </summary>
        ISvVoltage SvVoltage
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The SvShortCircuit property
        /// </summary>
        ISvShortCircuit SvShortCircuit
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The AngleRef_TopologicalIsland property
        /// </summary>
        ITopologicalIsland AngleRef_TopologicalIsland
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the ReportingGroup property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> ReportingGroupChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the ReportingGroup property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> ReportingGroupChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the TopologicalIsland property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> TopologicalIslandChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the TopologicalIsland property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> TopologicalIslandChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the SvInjection property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvInjectionChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the SvInjection property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvInjectionChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the ConnectivityNodeContainer property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> ConnectivityNodeContainerChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the ConnectivityNodeContainer property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> ConnectivityNodeContainerChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the BaseVoltage property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> BaseVoltageChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the BaseVoltage property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> BaseVoltageChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the SvVoltage property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvVoltageChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the SvVoltage property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvVoltageChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the SvShortCircuit property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvShortCircuitChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the SvShortCircuit property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> SvShortCircuitChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired before the AngleRef_TopologicalIsland property changes its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> AngleRef_TopologicalIslandChanging;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets fired when the AngleRef_TopologicalIsland property changed its value
        /// </summary>
        event System.EventHandler<ValueChangedEventArgs> AngleRef_TopologicalIslandChanged;
    }
}


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The library is located in the basement of the municipal office at 35 - 10th Street in Earlton, Ontario. Residents from Village of Thornloe also get to enjoy a free membership at our library.
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D. Hugh Rosenbaum says that all the people he spoke with would be eager to participate in his proposed tax refund lottery (letter, Jan. 9). Participants would pay $20 each, and winners would have half of their income taxes refunded. Drawings would continue until 50 percent of lottery revenues were paid out in prizes.
Mr. Rosenbaum couldn't have spoken with many low-income people. All taxpayers would face the identical odds of winning this contest, but winners with tax bills of $400,000 would be awarded $200,000, whereas those taxed at $40 would get a mere $20. While taxpayers looking at 10,000-to-1 payout ratios would indeed sign up in droves, those facing 1-to-1 payouts would as surely decline. Should the Federal Government really be initiating a program that returns vastly more to the rich than to the poor per dollar contributed?
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Average taxpayers in 1988 paid about $4,000 on their Federal returns and thus would collect about $2,000 under this program if they won. If all taxpayers participated, 1 in 200 could be expected to win ($10 in payout -half the participation fee - would come from each player, so 200 players would be needed on average to support one award).
The assumption of uniform participation rates is unrealistic, however. While the probability of winning would be the same for all players, expected winnings per dollar wagered would be proportional to tax liability. If participation increased with tax liability, the average award would be higher and the probability of winning lower than suggested above. A $10,000 average tax among participants would reduce the odds of success to 1 in 1,000. Expected winnings per dollar wagered would then be unacceptably low for more low-end taxpayers. They would drop out, and average winnings would rise in a vicious cycle.
The program would not be able to muster the enormous payout needed to reward the superwealthy, who alone would remain in it, given the paltry revenues such persons would collectively contribute.
Risky wagers have wide appeal, but not all have what it takes to become national institutions.
The writer is vice president for marketing research at the American Stock Exchange.


boolean transfer( double amount, int accountIdFrom , int accountIdTo) ; this method transfers money from the one account to the other. If the accountIdFrom does not have enough $$, this method returns false.
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Q: Why the number of wifi connections: 0? I want to show Wifi connection list with android studio. There are 2 connections on wifi settings of my phone but my application doesn't see them.
Thanks in advance
When I open debug application i see this sentence:
Number Of Wifi connections : 0
So why It can't see wifi connections?
I tried when wifi is enabled and when it's disabled.
MainActivity.java
import java.util.List;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.net.wifi.ScanResult;
import android.net.wifi.WifiManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
private TextView tv;
List<ScanResult> scanList;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    tv= (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtWifiNetworks);
    getWifiNetworksList();
}

private void getWifiNetworksList(){
    IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
    filter.addAction(WifiManager.SCAN_RESULTS_AVAILABLE_ACTION);
    final WifiManager wifiManager =
            (WifiManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);;
    registerReceiver(new BroadcastReceiver(){

        @SuppressLint("UseValueOf") @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            sb = new StringBuilder();
            scanList = wifiManager.getScanResults();
            sb.append("\n  Number Of Wifi connections :" + " " +scanList.size()+"\n\n");
            for(int i = 0; i < scanList.size(); i++){
                sb.append(new Integer(i+1).toString() + ". ");
                sb.append((scanList.get(i)).toString());
                sb.append("\n\n");
            }

            tv.setText(sb);
        }

    },filter);
    wifiManager.startScan();}

activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="hacker.wifi.mywifilist.MainActivity"
    android:id="@+id/main">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtWifiNetworks"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

A: Turn the location toggle of the device. Since Marshmallow it's a must.
Make sure that you have these permissions (you might omit some of them after testing, I took it from a similar project I did):
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

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Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Hepburn attended school in Elgin County and hoped to become a lawyer. His formal education ended abruptly, however, when someone threw an apple at visiting dignitary Sir Adam Beck knocking his silk top hat off his head. Hepburn was accused of the deed, denied it, but refused to identify the culprit. Refusing to apologize he walked out of his high school and obtained a job as a bank clerk at the Canadian Bank of Commerce where he worked from 1913 to 1917 eventually becoming an accountant at the bank's Winnipeg branch.
At the outbreak of World War I, Hepburn had already enlisted in the 34th Fort Garry Horse, but was unable to obtain his parents' consent to sign up for the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He then became a lieutenant in the 25th Elgin Regiment of the Canadian Militia, and was conscripted to the 1st (Western Ontario) Battalion in 1918. He transferred to the Royal Air Force and was sent to Deseronto for training, but suffered injuries in an automobile accident that summer, followed by influenza in the fall both of which kept him from active service. He returned to St. Thomas to tend to his family's onion farm.
After the war, Hepburn joined the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) helping to start its branch in Elgin County, but by the mid-1920s he switched to the Liberal Party. In the 1926 election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a representative of Elgin West, and was overwhelmingly re-elected in the 1930 election.
Later that year he became leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario. His support of farmers and free trade, and his former membership in the UFO allowed him to attract Harry Nixon's rump of UFO Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) into the Liberal Party (as Liberal-Progressives). This and the Great Depression led to the defeat of the unpopular Conservative premier George Stewart Henry in the 1934 provincial election. His stance against the prohibition of alcohol allowed him to break the Liberal Party from the militant prohibitionist stance that had helped reduce it to a rural, Protestant south western Ontario rump in the 1920s.
Hepburn represented a type of agrarian democracy that detested Toryism and valued oratory. He once saw a pile of manure situated in a village square, and proceeded to jump on top of it to give a speech, apologizing to the crowd for speaking from a Tory platform. He also used the same line when standing on a manure spreader, only to have a heckler shout, "Well, wind 'er up Mitch, because she's never carried a bigger load!"
Hepburn's premiership achieved international attention, which merited his appearance on Time magazine's cover in 1937.
As premier, Hepburn undertook a number of measures which enhanced his reputation as the practitioner of a highly vigorous style. In a public show of austerity, he closed Chorley Park, the residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, auctioned off the chauffeur driven limousines used by the previous Conservative cabinet, and fired many civil servants. In order to improve the Province's welfare, he gave money to mining industries in Northern Ontario, and introduced compulsory milk pasteurization (in so doing, he has been credited with virtually wiping out bovine tuberculosis in the province). Breaking with the temperance stance of previous Liberal governments, Hepburn expanded the availability of liquor by allowing hotels to sell beer and wine.
The Industrial Standards Act, which emulated the US National Industrial Recovery Act, was introduced in 1935 to set minimum wages and working conditions by industry and geographic area. It was described by then Minister of Labour David Croll as "the most controversial piece of legislation now on the Statute Books of the Province," and it came about after federal efforts instituted under R.B. Bennett's "New Deal" were declared unconstitutional.
The government also made international news by making the Dionne quintuplets wards of the provincial crown in response to public outrage of plans by promoters to exploit the infants by putting them on display at the Chicago World's Fair. The Legislative Assembly passed legislation in that regard, subsequently replaced in 1944 (which was not repealed until 2006).
One estate that was of particular focus in this campaign was that of the late John Rudolphus Booth, who had died in 1925. Although succession duties of $4.28 million ($62,700,000 in current terms) were paid in 1927, Hepburn subsequently claimed more in 1937 and had the Legislative Assembly of Ontario pass the necessary legislation to overcome the legal obstacles. Booth's heirs eventually paid another $3 million ($52,000,000 in current terms) in 1939.
As part of his drive to cut government spending, the Power Commission Act, 1935 was passed to cancel contracts that the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario had signed between 1926 and 1930 for delivery of electricity from power plants in Quebec, declaring them to be "void and unenforceable." This move temporarily shut Ontario out of world bond markets. The Act was declared to be ultra vires by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1937 as being legislation in derogation of extraprovincial rights (although later jurisprudence has suggested that the Court may have overreached in its rulings). Many such contracts were later renegotiated at lower volumes and prices.
Hepburn took an aggressive position with respect to timber licences in Northern Ontario that were being held by companies that would not (or could not) cut wood on them. In that regard, in 1936 the Forest Resources Regulation Act was passed that granted the government broad powers for mandating minimum production quotas, maximum limits in line with good forestry practice, reducing licensed acreages where they were in excess of requirements, and increasing stumpage fees on companies "operating or carrying on business in a manner detrimental to the public interest." Great Lakes Paper saw its holdings reduced from 23,085 square kilometres (5,704,000 acres) to 3,668 square kilometres (906,000 acres), and was assessed a $500,000 penalty ($9,000,000 in current terms) for refusing to participate in a minimum price agreement set up by the Ontario and Quebec governments.
In 1937, the Settlers' Pulpwood Protection Act was passed to govern the supply of pulpwood from private lands, together with fixing quotas and prices to be followed.
The Crown Timber Act's provisions — in effect since the time of Arthur Sturgis Hardy — requiring logs to be manufactured as timber before being exported from the Province were relaxed by order in council in 1936, in order to create employment opportunities in the logging industry.
When the Abitibi Power and Paper Company, in receivership since 1932, was ordered into liquidation in 1940, Hepburn appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the matter, in order to determine the best course of resolution. The Legislative Assembly imposed a moratorium on liquidation proceedings in 1941, which was ultimately upheld by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1943. The Commission's recommended plan was accepted by all creditors, and it would emerge from receivership in 1946, one of the longest such receiverships in Canadian history.
Although in later years Hepburn was to form a Liberal-Labour alliance with the Communist Party of Canada, yet as Premier he was opposed to unions and refused to let the CIO form unions in Ontario. On April 8, 1937, the CIO-backed General Motors plant in Oshawa went on strike, demanding 8-hour workdays, a seniority system, and recognition of their CIO-affiliated United Auto Workers union. The strikers were also supported by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Canada's left-wing party at the time. Hepburn, at the time professing a deep concern about radicals among auto workers and supported by the owners of the plant and General Motors, organized a volunteer police force to help him put down the strike when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to send the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This force was somewhat derisively known as "Hepburn's Hussars," or the "Sons of Mitches". Cabinet ministers who disagreed with Hepburn over the issue were forced to resign. However, the strike held out, and Hepburn capitulated on April 23, 1937.
Hepburn remained a bitter opponent of Mackenzie King after the strike, and harshly criticized King's war effort in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II introducing a resolution into the Ontario legislature which was passed 44 to 10, that accused the federal government of mishandling the war effort. The Conservative opposition voted unanimously for the resolution but the motion split the governing Liberals with nine members of Hepburn's caucus voting against and others leaving the chamber before the vote. Hepburn thought Canada should be doing more to support the war, and helped organize the military districts in Ontario, encouraging men to volunteer when Mackenzie King chose not to introduce conscription.
Hepburn supported Mackenzie King's opponent, Arthur Meighen, in a by-election in Toronto in 1942, notwithstanding Hepburn's later alliance with the Communist Party of Canada. Meighen's unusual source of support did not bring him to success, as he lost the by-election because the Liberals did not run a candidate and the prime minister ordered party resources to be sent to the CCF candidate. However, King was politically much stronger than Hepburn and federal Liberal supporters, as well as those who thought an erratically driven rift between the provincial and federal parties was suicidal, called for him to step down. Hepburn ultimately resigned as Premier in October 1942, but continued to serve as Treasurer of Ontario and party leader until the following year.
Although Gordon Daniel Conant had become Premier of the province, many people continued to think that was in name only. Senior cabinet ministers such as Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon resigned, demanding a leadership convention. Due to pressure from both provincial and federal Liberals, one was held in May 1943. Hepburn finally tendered his resignation as leader (by telegram), and Nixon was elected the new party leader, and was thus appointed as Premier.
The Liberals under Nixon were routed soon after in the 1943 Ontario election, falling to third party status behind the Progressive Conservatives led by George Drew, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Ted Jolliffe. Hepburn himself was re-elected in his riding as an Independent Liberal while calling for a Liberal-Conservative coalition against the burgeoning CCF. The Liberal caucus unanimously asked Hepburn to resume the party's leadership in 1944.
Now branding Drew's Conservatives as the greatest menace to Canada, he reversed his earlier criticism of Mackenzie King's war effort and campaigned for Liberal candidate General Andrew McNaughton in a 1945 federal by-election. Provincially, his earlier, vehement doubts about radicals among auto workers now muted, Hepburn formed a Liberal-Labour alliance with the Communist Party of Canada (at the time known as the Labor-Progressive Party) for the 1945 Ontario election, but lost his own seat in the Legislature.
Hepburn was the first Liberal to become Premier since George William Ross, and was the last Liberal Premier to win two successive majority terms until Dalton McGuinty.
In 2008 he had a school named after him only miles away from his family's farm. It was officially opened in January 2009.
^ a b Ralph Hyman (January 6, 1953). "Ontario's Youngest Premier, Mitchell F. Hepburn Dies". The Globe and Mail. p. 3.
^ a b "Particulars of Recruit". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
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Few people passing through Baltimore's Fell's Point neighborhood ever step onto the 500 block of South Dallas Street. The narrow street is really a glorified alley just wide enough to accommodate a single lane of one-way traffic and two single-file sidewalks. No businesses are located on the block. Less than 500 feet away around a corner, the sights and sounds of a regional bread company's production facilities dominate the neighborhood, overshadowing everything in the vicinity.
But the occasional pedestrian passing through South Dallas Street might just notice a clue to the block's unusual history. A plaque dedicated to Frederick Douglass is posted on the row house at 524. The marker tells the familiar story of Douglass, born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, who was leased out at the age of ten to his owner's brother-in-law in Baltimore, Hugh Auld. Douglass famously learned to read from Auld's wife, Sophia, who inadvertently taught the young boy how to decipher the abolitionist writings that would later inspire him to escape slavery and go on to become one of the most influential advocates for black freedom in the nineteenth century. Decades later, Douglass would recall that he had "much interest and affection for this old spot around Fell's Point, where I first felt that I might be useful in advancing and elevating our race."1
Plaque on Douglass Row. Photo: Author.
Almost as an afterthought, a single sentence appears at the end of the marker to explain Douglass's connection to the block. At the ripe age of 74, Douglass bought a plot of land on 516–524 South Dallas Street in 1892 and proceeded to construct a row of five houses to lease to renters. Douglass's foray into real estate development may seem like a surprising turn for the legendary freedom fighter. But the history of the five homes marks a fitting end to Douglass's time in Baltimore, embodying his remarkable personal transformation from property to property-owner. Indeed, the houses on Dallas Street—which became known alternately as Douglass Place and Douglass Row—represent the most meaningful (and possibly only) extant property in Baltimore with a direct connection to Douglass.
Douglass was twelve years old when he began frequenting the 500 block of Dallas Street, originally known as Strawberry Alley. In 1831, he joined a "new Sabbath school for black children" at the Strawberry Alley Methodist Church, a house of worship founded in 1773 with two congregations, one white and one black.2 In 1865, long after Douglass left Baltimore, the two congregations split into separate churches. In 1876, the black church moved to a larger building on the nearby corner of Bank and Caroline Street.
Douglass Place at 516-524 South Dallas Street, Baltimore. Photo: Author.
But Douglass never forgot the congregation of Strawberry Alley. In September 1891, he returned to the expanded and relocated church, now called the Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Church, where he recounted that "whatever successes have come to me in literature, in statesmanship, in learning the light and inspiration was first gathered in the old church in Strawberry alley." Douglass fondly recalled "the little, unpretentious house in which we used to gather," a century-old building that the Baltimore Sun had described as "dingy and out of repair" several years earlier.3 Douglass's fond words about the building may have been his way of expressing interest in purchasing the property. Just four months later, in January 1892, officials from Centennial sold the building and ground to Douglass.
Douglass had long undertaken personal business ventures. In addition to his extensive business as an author and traveling lecturer, Douglass operated a series of abolitionist newspapers from 1847 to 1863. In 1874 he served briefly as the president of the federal Freedmen's Saving and Trust Company before the bank eventually failed. But it may be that Douglass was even more eager to make financial investments late in life, as he contemplated how to maximize the inheritance he would leave to his family upon his death. Perhaps not coincidentally, Douglass celebrated real estate ownership in several speeches in Maryland in 1891, instructing one audience, "We must acquire property, and we must leave something. Every dollar laid up is one dollar ahead."4
Deed for 516-524 South Dallas Street, 1892. Photo: Maryland State Archives.
Douglass had the Strawberry Alley church building demolished soon after purchasing it. On its site he commissioned the construction of a row of five modest houses. Each of the two-story houses measured just 902 square feet. More recent accounts of these properties contend that Douglass conceived of the properties as a form of low-cost housing to benefit impoverished black families, but primary sources are more ambiguous about the aging abolitionist's motives.
To be sure, the modest alley houses Douglass built were among the most accessible dwellings for working-class Baltimoreans. As architectural historian Mary Ellen Hayward writes, Baltimore's "real housing bargains lay on the narrow 'alley' streets that bisected each city block. Here, the same builders who put up rows on the main and side streets offered smaller, much more affordable houses, which were within the purchasing power of common working men. Community-sponsored and church-sponsored building and loan association made this possible, lending hard-working members the cash they need, to be repaid over time at a low rate of interest."
Douglass, however, wanted to rent out his houses, not sell them. Financial gain was at least partly his goal. Yet within a year, Douglass's property manager in Baltimore, Charles R. Bodrey, wrote him to report that "on account of the stringency of the times it is very hard to collect money here now.…Two of the houses are now vacant."5 The national financial panic of that year could not have come at a worse time for Douglass. Whatever his motives, Douglass did not live long enough to see the properties appreciate significantly. Three years after purchasing the land on South Dallas Street, Douglass passed away on February 20, 1895 at the age of seventy-seven.
One thing that is clear about Douglass Place is that it did not attract only African Americans. A city directory shows that blacks resided in just one of the five houses by 1901, while whites, some of them Polish immigrants, inhabited three of the homes. At the height of Jim Crow, Douglass Place was a multiracial housing development. Just ten years later, the city of Baltimore would enact the first municipal law in the United States mandating racial segregation in housing.
Marble marker, Douglass Place. Photo: Author.
Yet before that happened, Douglass's eldest son, Lewis Douglass, sold the five houses on South Dallas in 1906 to the real estate company of Samuel Siegael, a Russian Jew who had immigrated to Baltimore.6 Douglass Place has remained a little-known part of Baltimore's history ever since, typically discussed as a mere footnote to Douglass's better known history as an enslaved youth in the city. As a Baltimore Afro-American article about Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1931 mentioned in passing, it "is a matter of deep regret that the section, now in the hands of Poles is known by the original name of Dallas Street, the name Douglass row having been discarded. The author hoped that the houses would "get back into the hands of the colored people," implying that they may have initially been rented only to blacks.7
In 1982, two residents of 520 South Dallas Street successfully applied for the five houses of Douglass Row to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most of the homes are still inhabited today. An undated marble carving on house 520 marks the small row as Douglass Place.
In January 2016, the one-bedroom house at 525 sold for $145,000. The sale listing on Redfin.com featured a slideshow of the home. If not for the plaque on the property's exterior and a small portrait displayed on a fireplace mantle, nothing about the short, narrow house would suggest that it had been built by one of the greatest activists and political thinkers in American history.
"The Colored People—A Day's Account of What They Are Doing and Saying—An Address by Frederick Douglass," The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 1891, 6. ↩
"Douglass Was an Active Member in Centennial M.E. Church," The Baltimore Afro-American, March 5, 1932, 5; William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991), 37–38. ↩
"The Colored People—A Day's Account of What They Are Doing and Saying—An Address by Frederick Douglass," The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 1891, 6; "Strawberry Alley Church," The Baltimore Sun, March 1, 1883, 1. ↩
"Douglass Day," The Baltimore Sun, August 20, 1891, 6. ↩
Letter from Charles R. Vodrey to Frederick Douglass, Mary 17, 1894, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress. ↩
Samuel Siegael, lease to Myer Siegael, June 4, 1906, Maryland State Archives, CE 168-2250, Book 2242, Page 428; "Funeral Services Today For Samuel Siegael," The Baltimore Sun, November 1, 1931, 17. ↩
"Douglass Was An Active Member." ↩
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The AIM NetworkPoliticsThe Pre-Election MYEFO Update: Labor's Scrutiny Fully Justified
The Pre-Election MYEFO Update: Labor's Scrutiny Fully Justified
Image: The Monthly Covering the Treasurer's 2021-22 Budget
By Denis Bright
Without access to the vast resources of the federal LNP in Government, Labor has raised sobering realities to deflate the political excesses of the last Mid-Year Economic and Financial Outlook (MYEFO) before the 2022 election.
MYEFO still provides a window of political opportunities for the Morrison Government as economic indicators show a temporary rebound in the September Quarter in GDP growth, a temporary growth in capital expenditure in mining on real estate and property markets and improvements to business confidence as the holiday season approaches after a lengthy period of COVID-lockdown.
A December Quarter rebound is likely to be a feature of a March election campaign. It is due for release on 2 March 2022.
MYEFO has Machiavellian elements. The most obvious concern is the $16 billion set aside for unannounced election promises as released during the heat of the election campaign as in 2019 in electorates under siege from Labor.
There is also the obvious repeated ruse of our official unemployment figure in the Treasurer's media statements to talk up MYEFO. The 4.6 per cent unemployment rate needs more qualifiers. Australians from all age groups on training programmes or working on a trial basis for employers do not feature in the official jobless data. Adding the underemployed to the official jobless rate, translates to 13.1 per cent of the workforce. The situation is worse in the most disadvantaged federal electorates.
Besides these obvious lapses are the wildly optimistic assumptions about the post-COVID recovery in the Australian and global economies despite the global shadow posed by the Omicron variant with its record level of cases in Britain.
The Treasury is also over-optimistic about economic relations with China and Hong Kong despite months of sabre-rattling and patrols by Australia through the disputed waters of the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits:
In China, GDP is forecast to grow by 8 per cent in 2021 before moderating to 5 per cent in 2022, reflecting the strong recovery to date. Growth has eased recently owing to a slowdown in the property sector and the impact of multiple provincial virus outbreaks on consumption. Despite a high vaccination rate, China has continued to pursue an elimination strategy, imposing aggressive local containment measures and strict international border controls to suppress and limit outbreaks
A third of Australian trade also plies these disputed maritime routes. MYEFO also notes that Australian deposits in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) which help to fund China's Belt and Road Investment is currently running at $4 billion. Former Liberal Treasurer Peter Costello was a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation (CIC) between 2014 and 2018. The AFR announced on 26 August that Australia had just withdrawn substantial amounts of Australian Future Fund Investments in the CIC to support the sabre-rattling campaigns against our strongest trading partner.
All this suggests that the federal LNP is playing domestic politics in its strategic disputes with China that cuts Australia off from profitable investment partnerships within Australia and in the global economy.
Restrictions on overseas investment on security grounds have contributed to the downward trends in investment flows on the LNP's long financial watch since 2013. Australian net capital inflows have never fully recovered from the GFC on the RBA's latest chart series:
Current capital flow data is worse than the RBA charts disclose because the resultant investment is highly concentrated in the mining, real estate and property sectors which make little contribution to the building of a more sustainable and diversified economy. Labor shares Peter Costello's enthusiasm as Chair of the Future Fund in his 2020-21 Annual Report:
As a result of the Board's careful long-term positioning, the Future Fund has generated a 10-year return of 10.1% per annum against a target of 6.1% per annum. Since inception, investment returns have added $136.3 billion to the original contributions from the Government.
At 30 June 2021 the Board of Guardians invested over $245 billion across the six public asset funds for which it is responsible for the Commonwealth Government. Each fund has exceeded its target return over every time-period.
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) generates earnings to provide grants to support medical research and medical innovation. The MRFF delivered a return of 10.9% in 2020–21 and was valued at $22.0 billion as at 30 June 2021.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund returned 13.9% for the year, taking its value to $2.2 billion. The Future Drought Fund and Emergency Response Fund have also performed well, delivering returns of 14.0% and 13.9% per annum respectively.
The Disability Care Australia Fund also continued to perform in line with its Mandate, delivering a return of 0.4%.
The opening up of new subsidiaries of the Future Fund and state-controlled investment funds to corporate hedge fund capital avoids fractious debates about additional taxation burdens. Labor's National Policy mentions investment seventy times. Sceptical constituents might well ask for more details on the origin of this investment capital. More specific mention of investment options has come with the release of Labor's affordable housing agenda:
An Albanese Labor Government will create a $10 billion off-budget Housing Australia Future Fund to build social and affordable housing and create thousands of jobs now and in the long term. Each year investment returns from the Housing Australia Future Fund will be transferred to the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) to pay for social and affordable housing projects. Over the first 5 years the investment returns will build around:
20,000 social housing properties.
4,000 of the 20,000 social housing properties will be allocated for women and children fleeing domestic and family violence and older women on low incomes who are at risk of homelessness.
10,000 affordable housing properties for frontline workers.
A Social and Affordable Housing Fund (SAHF) is operated by the NSW Government. A proportion of the investment returns will fund annual service payments that will reward community housing providers over 25-years to bridge the gap between rental revenue and operating costs. These are far from being radical initiatives and stake out a broad support base that existed prior to the Labor Split of the 1950s.
In The Boom-and-Bust Traditions of Conservative leaders, MYEFO conceals the likelihood of a near trillion-dollar public debt in 2024-25 as private sector investment falters while government spending programmes move southwards after the election to reduce the economic boost from deficit spending which has contributed to favourable short-term MYEFO indicators.
I hear the confidence of Bill Hayden in the enthusiastic responses of Dr. Jim Chalmers to the current MYEFO. The adjacent seat of Oxley became a safe Labor seat for the first time after the defeat of the Liberal Health Minister in 1961. Being taken for granted, both then and now, raises Labor's enthusiasm for the possibility of a change of government this time around despite all the media hype in MYEFO and in the future December Quarter economic indicators.
This public relations advertisement warns everyone about life delivering curved balls during the cricket season. Take good advice from leaders who are on our side is already a strong feature of Labor's media agendas. This style of narrative advertising could be broadened with inputs from other cross-sectional characters who are committed to level-headed critical policies that are appropriate for a middle-ranking Australian economy with a still underdeveloped financial sector.
This would be a variation of the It's Time Advertising from 1972. This campaign was challenged fiercely by the Federal LNP. Labor's victories in twelve new seats were partially offset by losses to the LNP in Bendigo, Forrest, Stirling and Sturt. Out of this mix, Labor secured the seat of Cook which is Scott Morrison's current seat.
State of the art advertising can attract attention and fire the appetite for change over that conventional wisdom offered by the LNP to justify more market ideology and militarism to worsen the Australian social divide. Readers might take a few minutes to evaluate this style of the public announcement by checking the You Tube Channel.
Narrative advertising should be endorsed by members of Labor's Shadow Ministry, high profile candidates and popular Australians as in 1972.
A call to electoral enrolments is the first step in getting sceptical potential constituents onside before the rolls close in early 2022 as the voting returns in many Labor heartland electorates were unbelievably soft at the last election.
Denis Bright (pictured) is a financial member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). Denis is committed to consensus-building in these difficult times. Your feedback from readers advances the cause of citizens' journalism. Full names are not required when making comments. However, a valid email must be submitted if you decide to hit the Replies Button.
wam December 18, 2021 at 9:06 am
Thanks, Denis, A scary start, informative explanations in the middle and a hopeful end.
The voters who need labor are the target for scaring by scummo's cash.
Sadly the adage of the devil you know is strong because many do not know any more than what these devils say they do and say what labor will do.
The lnp deviously change devils each election. 2022 will be the first conservative PM, since the lying rodent, to face his second election and he deserves howard's fate but christine's cash is a powerful asset and rupert's media lies as a matter of course.
Albo needs a grassroots campaign to allay fears, get them back on labor's track and into the polling booths.
Terence Mills December 18, 2021 at 9:16 am
I'm sure that somewhere in the mid-year fiscal update Frydenberg apologised for bungling the Jobkeeper handout and the $6.2 Billion that went to companies who did not meet the criteria for Jobkeeper and whose revenues did not diminish as a result of COVID.
How could I have missed that ?
Laura December 18, 2021 at 9:19 am
Thanks Denis for your insights on Scott Morrison's communication strategies for the battlers.
Phil Pryor December 18, 2021 at 9:19 am
A slut will do anything for money and notice. The unfortunate ones, often women, were "forced" into ways of life that had slutting as a preference to worse. There have been many ugly rich sluts, often heirs and heiresses of no known worth personally. But, life itself has become very slutty for too many unfortunates, and, if one wishes to be a keen journalist these days, one must work for the imperious filth of some biggy who wants fuhreristic control. Murdoch gets a huge lineup of supine, compliant, wannabenoticed scribblers and yabberers, never running out. The real religion today is Sluttyanity, with serving, loyalty, pronation, Yass boss attitudes. Most of us most of the time must conform, must obey, must go along. I expect possible elimination for being resentful, disobedient, strident. It's no good, being relatively alone in a world of gimmicks, goods, waste, pollution, deception, slyness and the odd little lie. Soon, existence in a "western" type consumer excess, corporate crooked controlling, bent, deceptive, double crossing, clown led world will be hopelessly distasteful, as it is under a Morrison poxplague.
Stella December 18, 2021 at 9:21 am
Denis, thanks for another insightful summary of the MYEFO and it's implications for the pending 2022 federal election.
Leila December 18, 2021 at 9:23 am
Claiming to be On Your Side is an essential Liberal and Far Right Political Strategy which has been applied across the generations here and overseas.
Waltz, you may have missed it because $6b is not newsworthy, in terms of LNP debt?
Chris December 18, 2021 at 9:56 am
The political class must do more to inspire the electorate. State of the art communication must become Labor's forte.
Pat December 18, 2021 at 10:03 am
Jim Chartmers represents a Labor heartland electorate and seems to have the best Labor vote north of Greater Sydney and Newcastle. Meticulous research as usual Denis.
Lennon December 18, 2021 at 11:15 am
The LNP is ahead in almost every booth on the Gold Coast and that secure vote affects the Senate Result which reduced Labor to one senate spot last time. 2022 is a real challenge with all those tax-payer funded mail outs and calendars from LNP members telling us to be happy and obedient.
Tessa_M December 18, 2021 at 11:23 am
High profile Australians in the arts and sports should come out to support the change agenda.
James Robo December 18, 2021 at 11:25 am
Scott Morrison has his eyes on a guided Australian democracy in which disadvantaged people surrender their rights to the LNP and his well resourced far-right allies. The question raised by Denis' article is: Can he be stopped? If the polls got really bad, I expect that he would resign rather than face defeat.
rubio@central coast December 18, 2021 at 11:27 am
Watch out for the attacks on Medicare as the LNP struggles to reduce its deficit at our expense. When will the crack-down be launched on those multinationals who launder their incomes offshore?
Kate Ahearne December 18, 2021 at 11:45 am
Thanks, Denis.
I wish I understood it all! But going on what I did understand, MYEFO is spinning like a top.
Please don't use the word, 'slut' in this way. I'm probably not the only woman here who has ever been 'slut-shamed'. And what's more, when pejoratives, like 'slut' and 'c..t' are applied more widely, the suggestion is that the behaviour concerned is somehow like the behaviour of some women, or in the case of 'c..t', all women.
In the particular case of the word, 'slut', you're using a term used to diminish certain women who might, or might not be 'sluts', whatever a 'slut' might be… A woman/girl who might have been taken advantage of? A woman/girl who has not had the support she needed, and has lost her way? A woman/girl whose blouse is too low-cut, skirt too short? I could go on and on…
Please don't do it. What the 'f..k!?!
GL December 18, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Bwahahaha…snort…snigger…heehee…
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/police-raid-over-parliament-house-revenge-porn-probe/news-story/12d6326adf606a278405363cd4857d2d
It will be interesting to see how the Masterful Master of Spin reacts to this. The cretin who did the disgusting act is the "victim." As is usual, what would have been the reaction from the LNP and main sleaze media if it was a Labor staffer?
Phil Pryor December 18, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Kate, I assure you I was not even thinking of women, nor what they might do or why, for most of the s—s I picture now are men, (Rupert??) It is an old english word referring to the desire to obtain enough money and notice to survive and get on, so I apologise to you and any lady who has been badly treated, by men in particular. In fact, I sympathise with the position of those who must so strive, for we have all been robbed by the appropriations of conquerors, nobility, enclosure lords, etc. None of your quite evocative about "whatever a s— might be" was how I thought, so, no more from me. (shut up you cranky old bastard.)
Kyle Brunning December 18, 2021 at 2:42 pm
Burger and Fries hasn't left anything in the kitty..for an emergency..like..the pandemic we're in now.
A trillion dollars in debt, they can never claim to be better economic managers.
Flatline wages (in my case, regressing for three years) . I put up my hand for a wage increase ( you know, I now run the show, don't get fully paid for overtime, take work home, supervise more people, do more technical stuff, take more responsibility etc..etc..) and I was in no uncertain terms told if I want a payrise, leave. It is the same for many, yet they are about to crank open the immigration spigots again and saturate Australia with more low skilled immigrants and rent-a-degree applicants. Do we really need more expert hand car wash personnel from the sub-continent? All in the face of so many unknowns and unknown unknowns?
I see a disaster unfolding. Omicron.
NSW has opened up and made mask wearing more a personal statement – for the clinical hypochondriacs or bedwetters only, in the face of a massive new covid variant threat and skyrocketing cases in the premier state.
Prediction – we are stuffed.
The Gaslighter in chief is stuffed (along with what will be left of the right).
Perotet is gonna be a one gig wonder.
Albo 'aint up tp it.
Where we go from there in this brave new world I'll leave up to your imagination, my imagination is just too scary.
Kate Ahearne December 18, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Your etymology of the word, 'slut' is quite a bit dodgy. However, whatever the word might have meant in Old or Middle English, it now refers to a woman or girl of slatternly habits, or, more commonly, a woman or girl whose sexuality might be considered 'loose'.
In my lifetime, I've never heard or seen the word applied to a man. (Although I can well imagine it might have its uses among gay men.) I have also never, ever seen or heard it used to refer to 'the desire to obtain enough money and notice to survive'.
Well said, Kate,
I didn't have the guts to call my shame at the words.
Most men vary the meaning 'c' by modulating the voice or from the adjectives used. These functions are not available to either of the 's..t' descriptors
However, the use of words depicting women as sex objects is unwarranted and should be called in the same way as bullying. That statement attracts the most 'you fuken commie politically correct arsehole' type responses.
The other with negative answers is the special walk of models. Sex sells????
Vikingduk December 18, 2021 at 4:58 pm
Well, Kate lives a sheltered life, never heard the word slut used to describe a man or his proclivities, seems keen to keep her diet of outrage pills on hand waiting for the moment and then that wanker, wam, or billy is it, Corvus knows you well, weighs in, for fuck sake, put your reading and comprehension glasses on. What you need to ask yourselves is, (a) do I mean what I say, do I say what I mean, am I stirring the pot, (b) I have idle moments to fill and this is how I choose to use them, (c) that I do actually mean what I say and think you are both bullshit. Bring on your outrage, hammer me with your truth, bludgeon me with your justifications. Really, Kate, because you, I repeat, you, have never heard that word slut applied to a man does not mean it has never happened. It's a big world, dudes, lots of shit happens that we are ignorant of, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Vikingduk,
You say, 'Really, Kate, because you, I repeat, you, have never heard that word slut applied to a man does not mean it has never happened. It's a big world, dudes, lots of shit happens that we are ignorant of, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.'
It might have happened – indeed it did happen on this very thread. A misuse of the word.
Why don't you look up the dictionary meaning of the word, 'slut'? And, yes, when I see something that looks like a denigration of women, I am, if not always outraged, at least concerned. (Depending on the circs.)
Actually, I have no memory of ever having used the word, 'slut' myself to describe any woman.
Roswell December 18, 2021 at 5:34 pm
That's a bit below the belt, Vd.
I've never heard of it used to label a man, and I can assure you that I haven't led a sheltered life.
To run Kate down like that – a person you know nothing about – is poor form.
Thanks, Roswell.
I repeat my apology for offence, though the word was used in one narrow correct manner. (I taught english for over fifty years) So, although I was thinking of Morrison, Joyce, Porter, also Johnson, Trump, Murdoch, also, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, etc, it was insensitive.
Phil, we appreciate that you made no personal attack on Kate.
Like Roswell, I certainly didn't think you were trying to attack me.
Whoohoo anyone else want to jump on the bandwagon?
It isn't a bandwagon. It's an issue – an issue that needs our attention. These are things that matter.
When I was a secondary school kid, long, long ago, we were introduced to the delights of debating. The classic topic was, 'The word is mightier than the sword'. I never got to debate that particular topic. (I seem to remember 'Australia's Role in the Commonwealth' with some embarrassment. I did not cover myself with glory.)
My concern ever since then, though, has been about language. After child-raising, and caring for the people around me who have occasionally needed care from me, the state of the world, and so on, language has been the major concern of my life. That doesn't make me an expert – certainly not an 'expert' whose opinions are beyond debate. It just makes me a person who loves and respects language, and is aware of the damage that language can cause. As they say in the classics, 'Loose Lips Sink Ships'.
If I could resurrect that old debating topic and re-frame it, it would be something like, 'The word is more dangerous than the sword'.
I think most of us here are aware of the harm that words can do in the big P Political sphere. (Let me just mention Morrison, Trump.) But that harm is potentially and actually everywhere.
I would dare anyone to suggest that gendered language, when used to denigrate, has more often been used to harm men than women.
Michael Taylor December 18, 2021 at 8:05 pm
Yes, I'll jump onto the bandwagon.
You were out of line. Time to let it go.
I made the mistake here once of suggesting someone was drunk, and I wish I hadn't.
I later learned that this particular person had finally beaten an alcohol addition which he had fought for decades. My accusation, thus, was inappropriate and insensitive.
We don't know who we're talking to here. We don't know each other's stories. All we know is that we're on the same side. Let's stand together… not apart.
You guys are so predictable, bait the water with an outrageous opinion, a different opinion, a wrong word choice and see the monkeys run. By the by, why did the liar from the shire and his cheese and kisses need the security detail to clear the area so these pious pare could have their photo op/ pay their respects at the Tasmanian tragedy? Mourners watched silently from across the road as the smirking jerk and the misses displayed sadness.
Whatever you had to say, Kate, I really can't be bothered reading, I think I need to find somewhere else to play.
Vikingduk.
You said it: 'Whatever you had to say, Kate, I really can't be bothered reading, I think I need to find somewhere else to play.'
It's not a game. It's serious, and you're not helping. I think you might be right, though – It might be time for you to find somewhere (else) to 'play', When all else fails, though, advice to us all, be sure to 'do no harm'.
Nice try at deflection. The PM behaved despicably. But not relevant to the current discussion.
Vikingduk, I heard about that; Morrison's goons clearing the mourners away from the path so his Lordship could storm his way through. If I was a family member of one of the deceased I would have stood my ground. That prick would have had to walk around me.
On the other issue, let it go. You're a popular commenter here but in my opinion you went a bit too far. Take it on the chin and let's focus on fighting Tories.
Looks like it's just you and me, Kate. ✊
GL December 18, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Vikingduck,
That's petulant and childish. I thought you were better than temper tantrums, but it seems I might be wrong. As the adage sort of goes: Grin and bear it then move on.
corvusboreus December 18, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Loony sluts…
Roswell December 18, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Whoa, cb. Not good.
corvusboreus December 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
Slutty loonies??? …
Roswell December 19, 2021 at 12:11 am
This isn't like you.
Good to see some humour in Australian political discussions about serious issues like MYEFO which affect your future
Kate Ahearne December 19, 2021 at 8:07 am
Thanks, Michael.
It's not just you and me, though. That way lies despondency. I reckon there are loads of readers here who may have chosen not to take part in the discussion that has upset some of us overnight, for all sorts of reasons. I don't always have the time/energy myself to take part in all the goings-on here, or even most of them.
One of the subjects that I haven't touched on in this particular thread is the fact that you and your friends have gone to great lengths to provide this website. And you continue to serve with your constant care and monitoring. It grieves me to see people 'taking advantage', and I really don't want to be one of them.
This is not the time for mucking around. Our nation and our planet are in dire need. We have some people here who are truly gifted in the art of invective, and I can see that there is a role for it. But let's apply our invective judiciously, where it might do some good.
Meanwhile, let's get on with our job of making the world a far better place than it is now. It's imperative.
Florence December 19, 2021 at 8:22 am
What annoys me about the word slut is it is never applied to me for the same behaviour. When it comes to men, they are admired for sowing wild oats. Women are shunned by so-called decent society forever, never to be brides of the men who used them.
Watchdog December 19, 2021 at 8:46 am
RW. Quite the opposite.
Cb is clear and cogent as opposed to the repetitive slutty trolls.
Cb defined trolls earlier, yet we still have "loonies" defying the unbiased, independent and informative media platform logo.
"Slutty = provocative in a way that is considered bad taste".
corvusboreus December 19, 2021 at 9:12 am
Slutty Cb!
leefe December 19, 2021 at 9:12 am
Oh dear, I missed a bit of a barney. Sorry for not being around to back you up, Kate.
The word "slut" can be used for any person who … shall we say overindulges (by general social standards) in certain behaviour; we sometimes call someone with a lust for publicity a "'media tart" or "fame whore"; similar meaning, similar use.
But, as Florence said, it is never applied to (straight, cis) men in the same way it is applied to others. He is a pantsman, a stud, a playboy, a legend; she is a slut, a tart, the town bike.
The way it was used here by Phil, yes that grated. Felt wrong and out of place because, while technically an accurate use of the word, it ignores the enormous social baggage that accompanies it. Glad he can see the problem there.
A couple of other commentators, however …
Slut or loonie?
Supposing I choose to adopt the word 'sluts' as my own pet term for a political party and, by association, anyone I perceive or suspect as having affiliation with that party or it's ideologies?
Could I then formulaicly cut & paste repetitious ranting spiels about 'sluts' across multiple threads?
Or is insinuation of slatternly behavior deemed more offensive than implication of mental illness?
Ps, vale vikingduk, I hope your Valkyrie's health improves.
Respecting sensitivity, I remain sorry for starting something madly nomadic, as I scribble in less than a minute, move on, must edit more responsibly thus. I was angrily thinking of men in politics who bend over for imperious donors, a plague I hate. I never call or think about women at all in that way, as men, (we) are just as worse and have no rights to safe hypocrisy.
leefe December 19, 2021 at 10:18 am
It's OK, Phil. No need to keep apologising. Mistake made, acknowledged and hopefully avoided in future, end of.
cb:
It isn't about "insinuations of slatternly behaviour". It's about the centuries of judgment and condemnation and belittlement, always unequally applied.
As Solzhenitsyn once wrote "You call a man 'pig' often enough and he'll end up grunting". Blokes don't get that sort of judgment. They're often actually praised and admired for it, but if you aren't a bloke the term is used against you.
Maybe you're just on the wrong side of the border to understand the issue. And you can't really 'reclaim' or reinterpret a word that has not historically been used against you or a group to which you belong. Whichever way you want to use it, it is not going to mean the same thing to most of your audience.
leefe is right. You clearly had no intention of giving offence. Whatever offence might have been intended, it certainly wasn't from you.
OK leefe, this loonie loony will say no more about sluts.
Apparently the gratuitous repeat use of that deliberately insulting term causes anger and disrupts discussion, and we don't want that now, do we?
If there are terms that some find offensive, like sluts or loonies, surely we can use something else?
Kind of like finding another date to celebrate Australia?
I don't think any of the people commenting here have bad intentions.
KL,
I acknowledge that there are far more apt and less deliberately offensive terms than 'loones' and 'sluts' that could and should be used in preference.
As for intentions, I reckon they are best demonstrated by patterns of action.
If, despite both polite and angry objections from multiple parties, I persisted in self-indulgently dropping the term 'sluts' into each and every discussion thread for the next few years, would I still deserve the benefit of doubt?
Kaye Lee December 19, 2021 at 1:27 pm
I understand your point. My strategy is to not bother reading repetitious rants purely designed to get a reaction. There are lots of people willing to have a genuine discussion about the state of affairs.
The word is objectionable, just as loonie is objectionable.
Your word, Viking Duck is never acceptable.
My word has a positive application and historical credibility.
Recently the 'loonies' lost credibility to become an aggressive pragmatic power chasing party.
Every green, small darwin pond, I have met personally, in the last 10 years, has been unrelated to the greens of the 60s, 70s and 80s and have been nothing like our resident flora and fauna green and his green supporters, Kaye and lord. Both of whom, I wish would acknowledge the diludbrabsimkims actions and, the two major decisions of 2009 and 2013, as being disastrous to Australia and labor. They may also support the premise that the modern greens should accept responsibility for the consequences of such decisions.
ps a lot of meanings to 'vale' OK?
corvusboreus December 19, 2021 at 9:35 pm
Whatever works for you.
For myself, I struggle with some serious anger issues so I will be giving the AIMN a miss for the forseeable.
Corvus out.
Kate, I have been inconsequential on this site for years. However, I am as passionate as anyone here about the need to rid ourselves of the current lying, inept and dangerous government. As for corvus, lord, kaye, et al, they are content to allow the modern greens to ride on the back of previous green ideals and principles without disclosure of the results booby's and christine's support for the rabbott. To me that is dishonest and reflects the bandit's philosophy and ambition supported by some of the other green boys.
Kaye Lee December 20, 2021 at 8:14 am
wam,
I am fully aware of your grievances against the Greens for a vote they took 12 years ago and your annoyance with those who felt it important to oppose the Adani mine.
Your constant fixation on it is stultifying. Many people have objected to you calling Greens loonies yet you deliberately persist. It is not getting us anywhere. I am angry with Labor for their ridiculous leadership crap that cost them government. I could sit there and stew about that for the next couple of decades or I can talk about what is happening TODAY and think about what should happen TOMORROW and NEXT DECADE.
There are Greens Senators from every state, 9 in total, and they got 10.4% of the First Preference vote in the HoR. They obviously have a significant following that deserve to be heard rather than ridiculed.
I have zero interest in politics except for it being the vehicle to get done what we must. We get NOTHING done by pointless carping about the past.


I started out just making a mix that used more 'real' instruments rather than synthesizer pads to give my respect to the more composed pieces of music. After working on it a bit, I could see that the titles lent themselves to a 'space' vibe. That was going to be a theme for a mix of mine at one point, so why not now? These songs represent space, weightlessness, and inspire awe just like the cosmos.
You know, very often my son (who is 6) and very much into super heroes asks me what super power I would like to have. My answer is always the same: the power of flight. Why? Because growing up as a little boy and reading Superman comics, I was always captivated and jealous of the fact that he could fly into outer space and see the most amazing thing that the majority of the world's population would never see. I guess you could say that I'm a bit of an astronomy fan.
I pulled a few sound samples for this mix, from a NASA site as well as a site that posted a few samples online. For the next space mix (there will be another at some point), I'll dig a bit deeper finding better samples, but for now…..
In keeping the instrumentation as organic as possible, I opened up with a track from HAROLD BUDD. To me, the sedating effect of this track represents weightlessness. The EP that this track is on was produced by none other than Brian Eno (with Chas Smith on steel guitar). Who would ever think that steel guitar could be so tranquil?
For the same reason I like STARS OF THE LID, I also like WINDY & CARL (pssst, real guitar!). They describe their music as 'dreamy & psychedelic'. I couldn't agree more. And, of course, with a title like 'The Sun', this song fits perfectly.
Next up is again a very influential musical hero of mine, VANGELIS. Creation Du Monde translates to 'Creation of the World' (French).
ALOOF PROOF is an artist that I discovered from the ASPHALT EDEN site and fell very much in love with the organic sound. I purchased Piano Text, and here I decide to play an excerpt from the same release (there are only 2 tracks, but that is more than sufficient). There are more recordings of this artist that can be found online, but this Piano Text is pure magic.
JONN SERRIE seems to specialize in 'space ambient', if there is such a term. And for a good reason, he makes epic voyage music.
I really enjoyed making this mix. I pulled out some astronomy books, checked out some Hubble pictures, and basked in the warm flow of great music.
Hello! This time around, I wanted to capture a bit of a vibe from the time that one drifts off to sleep until the awakening. I started off with something from BIOSPHERE that for some reason reminds me of growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida. I lived not too far from the beach, and as the youngest of 6 spent a lot of time outside playing Frisbee in the summer. I was also not too far from the airport and Embry Riddle University. The students there often flew small prop planes for study (fun study, right?), and hearing this song from BIOSPHERE really takes me back to that time when I was young, carefree, and spending all day outside until day faded until night.
I put in the rain to transition between 2 events: the end of the evening and that time when just before sleep when your mind begins to visualize bizarre things. I wanted you to imagine you are hearing something out of the ordinary, hence the GLOBAL COMMUNICATION talking and an excerpt from JIM HALL's Beija Flor. Beija Flor is a piece written by South American composer (can't remember who), and this rendition from JIM HALL does it much justice. As far as jazz albums go, his album All Across the City and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue are both my favorites (tie).
I have a lot of soundtrack material, and one day I'll put more into use. I love everything about the soundtrack to American Beauty. Not only is it one of my all time favorite films (Kevin Spacey is an absolute hero!), but the music is dead on accurate as far as creating the right mood for the film. I'm envious of THOMAS NEWMAN. When you read his Wikipedia page, you'll be blown away by the amount of output he's had.
Oddly, I discovered the song Cirrus (HUGH & SATURATION) from a game created by IVORY called 4 DIFFERENCES. When the game loads, you can click a link to their website and get all of their compositions free. Not bad. Great game as well!
Again, more field recordings of a creek to break things up a little bit. The sleeping night is all about transitions.
The DAVID HELPING song comes from an album called Sleeping on the Edge of the World, which is appropriately named for our nightly passage. David shares a website with Jon Jenkins, so it's worth checking out.
I have every album that PETER GABRIEL has released. Most people didn't like OVO: The Millennium Show as much as his other stuff, but I love it. Peter's not singing every song, there are a lot of cameos, but it's him through and through. I spent a lot of consecutive days wearing the grooves out on this album, and every time I hear it, it's like the first time that I've heard it again. And that's okay. I have some more of his stuff that I'd like to use at some point, probably as excerpts.
The last 2 artists, ROBERT RICH and DAC CROWELL are both artists that I discovered via MAGNATUNE. Robert is a household name to those that like their ambient a little bit dark, somewhat like Steve Roach in feel. DAC is a bit unorthodox, and definitely has his own approach to soundscapes which are innovative and memorable. You can stream both at MAGNATUNE.
If the ending seems abrupt, it is meant to be that way (the song honestly ends like that) as you are awakening. And who ever wakes up over the course of 30 minutes? Only in Hollywood.
Well, I enjoyed making the mix, and have even more ideas for the next one. I'll create one for the sleepers probably next, or a soundtracks mix, or a collage of snippets from rock tunes. We'll see. Enjoy!
This mix opens with the very first thing that got me into any sort of ambient music. I'm a huge admirer of VANGELIS ever since I borrowed (stole) his album Ignacio/Entends-Tu Les Chiens Aboyer. The first side (half of which is in the mix) is like a lullaby. I had the worst experience of my life at that point, and this album was played every day. VANGELIS, to me, is something of a modern classical composer more than an electronic musician. Other releases from him that I highly recommend are Heaven and Hell, Mask, Soil Festivities, The Blade Runner Soundtrack, Mythodea, Rhapsodies (w/Irene Papas), and L'Apocalypse Des Animaux (I know it's a lot, but I'm a big fan!).
The next song comes from the album 76:14 (the duration of the album) by GLOBAL COMMUNICATION. HERE'S the Wikipedia page on the album, there are some interesting facts about it worth reading. Their other release (Pentamerous Metamorphosis) is also great, and I'll do a mix with some stuff from that at some point.
One thing that I love about STARS OF THE LID is that they use a real guitar (!). They, like Paul Avgerinos, are a thinking man's ambient. Their music for me is not so easily ignored. I can't unconsciously listen to them, they draw me it with their organic amalgamation. I like this particular song because of the violins and the warm analog sound of the entire thing.
Once again, I have to use the opportunity to inject some PAUL AVGERINOS (of course). Not too much to elaborate on, this one is also from Words Touch. This piece is very compositional (Paul holds a degree from Peabody Conservatory and plays bass. I actually got all of my stuff of his from MAGNATUNE, which is a great (and affordable) source for independent music.
BIOSPHERE (real name: Geir Jennsen) is an artist from Norway that considers his music to be 'arctic ambient'. He sometimes uses field recordings in his works. Like most of my favorites, he definitely has his own compositional style. There is another song from this same release that will be on the next mix.
Okay, I put in a thunderstorm to break things up a bit, sorry!
The last track on here is another VANGELIS tune from the Blade Runner Soundtrack played on an out of tune piano (or maybe is just an effect, hard to say). Very beautiful composition, if somewhat sad.
I didn't pick songs that put me in a melancholic mood, but rather songs (or songs from releases that I admire) that represent periods in my life.
I wanted to pick some of my favorite (very difficult task!) songs for my first mix. I can definitely say that BETWEEN INTERVAL's Autumn Continent is in my top 3 for ambient releases. So it had to be the first song. The entire CD is very solid from the first sweeping entrance to the last dying ember of drone. I have to say that PAUL AVGERINOS' Words Touch is an absolute must-have for those who like a thinking man's ambient. Paul is a more of a composer than the average brick-on-keyboard noodler, and Words Touch (along with Love, which can be a perfect sequel) is rather deep. I have an MP3 disc player that has played both of these releases every night for years now (in my son's room as well). The next song, I Shall Be Removed from KEN (I don't have much information on this artist) is something that I discovered from sifting through people's suggestions for ambient music. Oddly, the rest of the artist's music is indie rock. #19 by APHEX TWIN is a bit of departure for this artist, although he has released a couple of ambient works. I made a mix for a friend, who had never heard of APHEX TWIN, and he loved it. I then sent him a link to the videos WINDOWLICKER, COME TO DADDY, and RUBBER JOHNNY. Kind of blew his mind. The last song is a great one from WILLIAM BASINSKI. I love what he did with loops, he is a pioneer of sonic decay. Hopefully, these songs will lift you up, and ease anything that weighs you down.


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Korean J Intern Med. 2017 Sep;32(5):847-854. doi: 10.3904/kjim.2016.012. Epub 2017 Jul 28.
Geographic and demographic variabilities of quantitative parameters in stress myocardial computed tomography perfusion.
Park J1, Kim HS2, Hwang HJ3, Yang DH4, Koo HJ4, Kang JW4, Kim YH1.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
Department of Radiology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
BACKGROUND/AIMS:
To evaluate the geographic and demographic variabilities of the quantitative parameters of computed tomography perfusion (CTP) of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium in patients with normal coronary artery on computed tomography angiography (CTA).
From a multicenter CTP registry of stress and static computed tomography, we retrospectively recruited 113 patients (mean age, 60 years; 57 men) without perfusion defect on visual assessment and minimal (< 20% of diameter stenosis) or no coronary artery disease on CTA. Using semiautomatic analysis software, quantitative parameters of the LV myocardium, including the myocardial attenuation in stress and rest phases, transmural perfusion ratio (TPR), and myocardial perfusion reserve index (MPRI), were evaluated in 16 myocardial segments.
In the lateral wall of the LV myocardium, all quantitative parameters except for MPRI were significantly higher compared with those in the other walls. The MPRI showed consistent values in all myocardial walls (anterior to lateral wall: range, 25% to 27%; p = 0.401). At the basal level of the myocardium, all quantitative parameters were significantly lower than those at the mid- and apical levels. Compared with men, women had significantly higher values of myocardial attenuation and TPR. Age, body mass index, and Framingham risk score were significantly associated with the difference in myocardial attenuation.
Geographic and demographic variabilities of quantitative parameters in stress myocardial CTP exist in healthy subjects without significant coronary artery disease. This information may be helpful when assessing myocardial perfusion defects in CTP.
Demographical variability; Geographic variability; Myocardial CT perfusion; Quantitative parameter
10.3904/kjim.2016.012
Protocol for computed tomography perfusion (CTP). After 5 minutes of intravenous (IV) adenosine infusion, the stress phase of myocardial CTP was initiated with IV infusion of contrast material. Ten minutes after stress myocardial CTP, the rest phase of myocardial CTP was initiated after administration of an oral spray of nitrate puff. The total time for the myocardial CTP imaging protocol was approximately 25 minutes. ECG, electrocardiography.
Geographic and demographic variabilities of quantitative parameters in stress myocardial computed tomography perfusion
Korean J Intern Med. 2017 Sep;32(5):847-854.
Short-axis slice of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium showing the semiautomatic methods for segmental and geographic myocardial evaluation. (A, B) The borders of the LV myocardium were drawn to demonstrate the endomyocardium to epimyocardium region. (C, D, E, F) The values of myocardial attenuation and transmural perfusion ratio (TPR) were automatically obtained.
Normal myocardial attenuation in (A) the rest phase and (B) the stress phase in all patients.
Attenuation of the (A) total and (B) endomyocardial wall in the rest and stress phases. All p values for the comparison of the measurements of the rest and stress phases are statistically significant (p < 0.001). HU, Hounsfield unit.
Adenosine/administration & dosage*
Computed Tomography Angiography*
Coronary Circulation*
Healthy Volunteers
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging/methods*
Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Republic of Korea/epidemiology
Smoking/adverse effects
Vasodilator Agents/administration & dosage*
Ventricular Function, Left*
Vasodilator Agents
Adenosine - Hazardous Substances Data Bank


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Rural health tops Azad's 100-day plan
Docs may get double salary for serving in remote areas
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
Organ transplant law to be changed
The government plans to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, to make organ transplant less cumbersome for genuine cases and prevent commercialisation of transactions, besides networking transplant centres for better utilisation of harvested organs
New Delhi, July 2
Rural postings for doctors may no longer be made compulsory, but doctors and paramedics who agree to serve in remote areas could improve their salaries by about 100 per cent.
Keen to strengthen the primary health sector in hilly and tribal areas, the government plans to "heavily reward" specialists who give up urban postings in favour of remote, rural jobs.
Part of the Union Health Ministry's 100-day agenda, the proposal of location-specific salaries is part of the larger aim to identify uncovered areas for the setting up of primary health centres (PHCs). The funding would flow from the National Rural Health Mission component.
"The only way to push specialists towards fringe areas is to reward them. We could offer double the salary to a city doctor who goes to a remote area," Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad yesterday said. He was, however, silent on mass privatisation of the sector, which remains deregulated, and on his budget aspirations, despite India's poor one to two per cent of the GDP public spending on health.
There is, however, talk of enhancing human resources in the acutely-deficient health sector, with the government planning to set up an overarching commission to regulate human resources in health and expediting the setting up of 8 AIIMS-like institutes and upgrading 18 state health institutes to increase postgraduate seats in the critical gynecology, pediatrics and anesthesia sectors.
It remains to be seen though how Azad would reconcile the agenda of this council with that of Kapil Sibal in the HRD Ministry, which has announced a similar body for education, with some control over the Medical Council of India. "We will sort it out among ourselves," said Azad, when asked how two councils with one purposes would coexist.
The minister was also non-committal on his predecessor's proposal to make rural posting of doctors compulsory. "We would deal with that when we formulate short and long term policy in 100 days to fill gaps in human resources in health. This policy is paramount. We can't deal with the existing shortages simply by setting up more institutes," Azad said.
On the legislative front, too, the ministry's ambitious declaration of setting up a Central Drug Authority is confusing, considering the Drug Controller General is already regulating the drug market. Azad's agenda proposes amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act to establish an autonomous authority to oversee the drug sector and prevent the flow of spurious drugs, but is it not clear whether this authority would subsume the Drug Controller's Office.
The only front where the minister made a bold commitment was corruption in health offices and quality of medical institutes. "I would use extraordinary powers to derecognise any institute should I learn that the said institute used corrupt means to meet any of its ends, be it increase in seats or grant. Let institutes be cautioned that there is no place for touts in our system," he said. Future checking of medical institutes is also expected to be random and not organised.


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When An Interpreter Could Not Be Found | Window Projection | FACT | Liverpool | 2008 | 1 in series of 40 | 2006.
Visible was a collective of artists, activists, and lawyers looking at hyphenated states and security panic. The majority of detainees in paranoia times were from the invisible underclass - shadow citizens who drive taxis, deliver food, clean tables, and sell fruit, coffee, and newspapers. The only time we "see" them is when we glance at the license in the taxi partition, or the vendor ID card. When detained, they cease to exist in the consciousness. The impulse to create an in-sider-outsider dynamic with "loyalty" overtones has a pedigree: WWI incarceration of German-Americans; 1919 detention of immigrants in Anarchist bomb scare; WWII internment of Japanese-Americans; and HUAC "red scare".


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AIDS Project of the Ozarks
BY: Christine Temple, Features Editorctemple@sbj.net
Words to live by: We'll figure it out.
Dream dinner party guest: My dad was killed in Vietnam when I was 3 years old, so he would be my dream dinner guest. So much to talk about.
Favorite place to be: On water, whether it be a river or lake. That's one of the reasons I stayed in this area after college.
Advice to other women: Don't give up, and don't be afraid to change paths or ask for help.
Care for people in the Ozarks living with HIV/AIDS likely would be very different if it wasn't for Lynne Meyerkord.
She began her work with AIDS Project of the Ozarks as a volunteer counselor in the late 1980s, as tens of thousands of people nationwide had died due to AIDS-related complications and the stigma surrounding the disease was rampant.
When Congress passed the Ryan White Care Act in 1990, Meyerkord was instrumental in leading the APO board to secure funding, and it became one of the first AIDS service organizations in the country to receive federal funds to treat the disease.
After years of serving on the board and as a volunteer counselor, Meyerkord became APO's client services director and then executive director in 1998.
Since then, she says the organization has grown from a roughly $700,000 annual budget serving 300 clients to an organization budgeting nearly $8 million and reaching 5,000 people a year. The nonprofit takes its medical care and education services to 29 southwest Missouri counties.
"APO has come such a long way since 1988, when we had difficulty finding a building owner willing to rent to us because of the stigma involved with HIV/AIDS," Meyerkord says. "APO has become a successful, mission-fulfilling agency that provides much needed medical and psychosocial care to marginalized, stigmatized and underserved populations."
Dr. Stephen Adams, APO's medical director, says Meyerkord has led APO to become "a model of excellence in HIV care." He says she and the board of directors worked to broaden its mission to the LGBTQ community to ensure access to appropriate medical care. For instance, APO provides pre-exposure prophylaxis, a way for people who do not have HIV, but who are at high risk, to prevent infection by taking a daily pill.
"Starting with education about HIV prevention, testing and treatment for HIV, support for people living with HIV, including their families, and appropriate and compassionate care for the LGBTQ community, Lynne has led APO and southwest Missouri to become a healthier community for all people," Adams says.
Among her proudest accomplishments, Meyerkord notes the 2017 move to a new headquarters on South Glenstone Avenue, which she says helped boost the organization's visibility. She also cites her work on the founding board of Jordan Valley Community Health Center, as well as the city of Springfield's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Task Force.
In the office, Meyerkord says she's been intentional about making APO a place people want to work, offering such perks as dogs in the office on Fridays, new parents bringing babies to work and flexible schedules. She often promotes from within for management positions, citing an internal culture of mentorship.
"I believe that relationship and listening skills are the most important tools we have," she says. "Providing the staff with numerous opportunities for input and policy development is critical. As a nonprofit in an ever-changing political and funding landscape, creativity and flexibility are key. I believe I lead by example."